Dog Woman by Helen Quah Juana Adcock a stenographer who has fallen

a stenographer who has fallen in love with a young revolutionary

From Dylan Thomas’s eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath’s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen

There is an exultant celebration of a self that strips off layers of superfluous identity with grace and abandon

she was appointed a Knight of the Order of Dannebrog

Dog Woman by Helen Quah Juana Adcock a stenographer who has fallenThis startlingly original debut delves into the surreal, concealed moments of a young womanhood. Helen Quahs voice is in part a deep calling into the complex distances between mother and daughter, in part a twisted venture into the contradictions of romance. Dog Woman, named after the series of artworks by Paula Rego, contorts language, opening up a playfully dark and often humorous space of the fantastical and otherwise unexplained.