Meet Red Riding Hood. Meet witches, ghosts, beasts, painters, muses, and mermaids in a poetry collection that explored art, motherhood and voice. Winner of the Hennessy Award, and best selling novelist, Niamh Boyce... 'dissects fairytales and reassembles them with colour, menace and wit...she is as comfortable making the reader laugh as moving the heart. A fierce celebration of words and women.' Nuala O' Connor, author of Miss Emily.
Niamh Boyce was the 2012 Hennessy XO New Irish Writer of the Year, her debut novel The Herbalist won Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2013, and was long listed for an IMPAC Award. Her short stories have been anthologized in The Long Gaze Back and The Hennessy Anthology.