A review by betwixtcraft
Lost Objects, by Marian Womack

4.0

If you enjoy apocalyptic, weird fiction with a little bit of horror, you'll enjoy this collection of short stories. Marian Womack speculates what the world might look like in our future if climate change is not addressed. Some of the stories, I didn't really understand. But her prose is beautifully written, and if you read this for nothing else, read it for "Kingfisher".

"Perhaps this was what getting older meant, realising that you cannot fix everything."

"...after years of expensive academic education, we had absolutely no practical skills. Sometimes it felt as if all the sacrifices that my parents had made to provide me with a better future had been for nothing."

"When I was student I had read about a famous American poet who had also wanted to do more than one thing. But to her, wanting everything had not left her paralysed like it had me: she became a famous poet after all. She had also ended up with her head inside an oven, but even so she had not been gobbled up by history, as had happened to so many women who had managed to do even one of the things they wanted to do."