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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Charting surreal and yet familiar worlds where hope and horror co-exist, <em>Monster </em>is ruthless, weird, dark and funny. These 32 stories explore loss, addiction, love and breakdown with unsentimental economy. Stories concern mothers losing or leaving children, relationships dangling by a thread or exploding. Some characters are institutionalised, others are profoundly lonely. Some just wander around - lost, while others are filled with shocking violence. There is joy here, too, and a kind of blazing intimacy in this debut collection of tough, tender and unflinching stories.</p><p><br></p><p>Ashleigh Synnott lives in Sydney. Her stories, poems and essays have appeared in publications such as <em>Meanjin</em>, <em>Overland</em>, <em>the Long Paddock</em>, and <em>Antipodes</em>. <em>Monster </em>is her first book.</p><p><br></p><p>"Synnott has a rare gift for mixing light and dark, a love of outsiders and of inner worlds that soon becomes addictive. The stories in <em>Monster </em>pierce the skin, pick at wounds, and break through to the mysteries of embodiment and desire with a strange power. This is a writer who's not afraid to aim for the guts." - Jennifer Mills</p><p><br></p><p>"<em>Monster </em>takes us into unexpected corners of the imagination, a place inhabited by misfits and dreamers, innocents and lost souls, who take us by our necks and shake us around." - Debra Adelaide</p><p><br></p><p>An astonishing writer. Synnott's immense empathy for her outsiders and her fearless ear reminded me of George Saunders. - Delia Falconer</p><p><br></p><p>Strange, haunting, beautiful. - Sunil Badami</p><p><br></p><p>These stories strip away the facade of contemporary life to show what lies beneath. So true they take your breath away. - Eleanor Limprecht</p>

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