ST LUCYS HOME FOR GIRLS RAISED BY WOLVES PB – KAREN RUSSELL

Charting loss, love, and the difficult art of growing up, these stories unfurl with wicked humour and insight. Two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab; a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Insomniacs; Cabin 3, Somnambulists. . . ); a Minotaur leads his family on the trail out West, and finally, in the collection s poignant and hilarious title story, fifteen girls raised by wolves are painstakingly re-civilised by nuns.