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Best of 2018: Fiction
by ANDY HEDGECOCK

THIS has been a great year for stories that take liberties with genre and blur the boundaries between fantasy and reality.

Liminal by Bee Lewis (Salt) is an assured debut novel that explores the ways in which myth, dream and landscape affect our behaviour and perception. It’s also a gripping thriller concerning a damaged marriage, a pregnant amputee and the ambiguous motives of a menacing visitor.

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