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This debut novel is superb * The Telegraph * [An] extremely accomplished debut * Scotsman * Bamford conjures, in vivid, amplified language, how children fluidly and unpredictably make sense of the world … [Idle Grounds] is unsettlingly, sharply funny at times, with carefully built-up layers of dis-ease delivered in a comic deadpan * Guardian * Atmospheric . . . . captures an ambling quest that is by turns funny, lyrical and surreal . . . Bamford keeps us guessing until the very end * Mail on Sunday * Idle Grounds is a masterclass in misdirection * Financial Times * Unsettling, puckish, and brilliantly written, this novel is an absolute one-off. I loved it -- Claire Fuller Magical, perplexing and funny in a wholly original way -- Rachel Yoder Every sentence positively bristles with unease. One of the most atmospheric novels I have read in a long time. Beautifully written -- Jennie Godfrey [A] gorgeous, spirited debut. Absorbing ... the writing is so enthralling * Literary Review * An acid trip of a novel. Weird, sinister and darkly funny. I can't wait to see what Bamford does next -- Amy Twigg

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Krystelle Bamford's work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, bath magg, PANK, Under the Radar and a number of anthologies including the Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021 (Eyewear). She is a 2019 Primers (Nine Arches Press) poet and was awarded a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. Born in France and raised in a haunted little corner of Massachusetts, she now lives with her partner and two kids in Edinburgh. Idle Grounds is her debut novel.

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