Kit by Megan Barker classics 'Helen Ivory creates a troubled

'Helen Ivory creates a troubled yet beguiling world rich in irony and disquiet

meaning 'to press and be newly born'

Of how bodies can ‘lengthen in rain’ and how an hour might become ‘a moth-eaten stain

and the traces we leave in our wake

Jack Houston

Kit by Megan Barker classics 'Helen Ivory creates a troubled'In both its open throated exclamations and its concentrated meditations on myriad forms of pain and joy [] Kit reaches places other books don't.' Max Porter'An extraordinary experience It is work and voices like Megan's we have to fight for.' Maxine PeakeMegan and Kit met in their early twenties. Their friendship was intense, wild and true. Years later, when Kit becomes desperately unwell, Megan tries to pull her old friend back from the precipice,