Oddbody
Rose Keating
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A collection of brilliantly strange and uniquely captivating literary horror stories from a thrilling new Irish talent
AN IRISH TIMES DEBUT AUTHOR TO LOOK OUT FOR 2025
A VULTURE BEST BOOK OF 2025
A woman finds herself navigating a co-dependent relationship with a ghost. A waitress gives birth to an egg during her breakfast shift. A doctor puts his patient on a cleanse to ‘purify’ her mind, body and soul.
Through playful but provocative prose, Rose Keating’s stories traverse a realm both dreamlike and nightmarish, exposing – to the bone – the absurdities and horrors of the feminine experience. Oddbody prods a finger at societal norms, gleefully turns familiar tropes on their head and announces Keating as an audacious new voice in Irish fiction.
‘Joyously diabolic’ CAMILLA GRUDOVA
‘Dark and sumptuous and unapologetically peculiar’ LISA McINERNEY
‘Marvellously unnerving’ ERIC LaROCCA
“Dark and relentlessly weird … Full of heart and blood, this impressive, wildly imaginative collection heralds the arrival of a compelling new voice in speculative fiction”
new York Times
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“Startling, funny, alarming [and] superbly crafted … Confident, witty and perceptive. These are sharp and memorable horror stories about the most ordinary horrors: having a body; having a heart; being a woman in the 21st-century West”
Kevin Power
irish Times
“This is weird girl fiction at its finest - an uneasy, bold and subversive collection of astonishing tales that left me hungry for more. With Rose Keating, we are witnessing the birth of a rare and precious talent in literature”
Lucy Rose, Author Of The Lamb
“Brutal, beautiful, bloodthirsty. Rose Keating writes with the vivid grace of a poet and the clear-eyed insight of someone who knows a ghost or two. One of the most memorable debuts I’ve read in a long time”
Kirsty Logan
“Rib tickling and joyously diabolic, this book breathes a new and invigorating life into Irish literature”
Camilla Grudova
Rose Keating
Rose Keating is a writer from Waterford, Ireland. She studied on the Creative Writing Prose Fiction MA at UEA, where she was a recipient of the Malcolm Bradbury Scholarship and the Curtis Brown Prize. She is a winner of the Marian Keyes Young Writer Award, the Hot Press Write Here, Write Now prize and the Ted and Mary O’Regan Arts Bursary. She has been published in the Stinging Fly, Apex Magazine, Banshee and Southword. In 2022, she received an Agility Award from the Irish Arts Council.
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