Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben

Hypnotic and disquieting. The interiority of a late-30s spinster on holiday swings rapidly from travelogue to something wholly abstract and psycho-sexual. I’m obsessed with writing that seeks to accurately depict the disjointed way our consciousness actually works, how it shifts between the past and present, between memory, fantasy and dreams, sentimentality and pain. Belben is up there with Ann Quinn and Anna Kavan as one of the great female post- war experimentalists.