This sharp exploration of a dystopian London that doesn't feel so far from our own is full of female friendship, feminism and delicious description. --Top 20 beach reads, MTV
Beautifully and elegantly written... A slow burn to a very moving ending. --The Guardian Not the Booker Judges
Set in a chillingly plausible post-apocalyptic Britain, Sweet Fruit, Sour Land is about what it means to be human when civilization has been destroyed. Utterly absorbing and with prose to savour, this is a novel that will stay with me. --Hannah Kohler, author of The Outside Lands
A sharp critique of a hierarchical society... peppered with unusual, thought-provoking and at times poetic insight into memory, sense, questioning the status quo, including what feminist resistance looks like. --Laura Waddell, Nasty Women and Know Your Place contributor
I loved this tale of London in the future and I actually can't stop thinking about it now I've finished... 5 stars. --What Rebecca's Read blog
A sharp critique of a hierarchical society... peppered with unusual, thought-provoking and at times poetic insight into memory, sense, questioning the status quo, including what feminist resistance looks like. --Laura Waddell, Nasty Women and Know Your Place contributor.
Rebecca Ley writes essays as well as fiction and her recent essays have been published in Water Journal, and shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize 2017. In 2016, she founded Wander Magazine, a quarterly literary journal.