Deliverywoman is the stunning debut collection from Eva Wyles – thirteen short stories that dive into the complexities of human connection, the pursuit of meaning, and modern-day loneliness.
Across a diverse cast of characters – from teachers and gas station workers to hedonistic revellers and wealthy gamers – Wyles explores the strange dimensions of our world and the dangers of ordinary life, with needle-sharp writing both real and surreal.
Deliverywoman sits alongside A.M.Homes’ The Safety of Objects and Ottessa Moshfegh’s Homesick for Another World, announcing the arrival of a powerful new voice in contemporary fiction.
Read: Mother And (an excerpt), Keku Books
First lines: ‘Time I went,’ uttered the woman, then paused to look over her shoulder. The old man had been there since she’d arrived, on the opposite end of the pontoon, looking towards the blue horizon with his legs half sunk in the sea.