A collection of eight sharply imaginative short stories that focus on women's relationships with their bodies, their lovers, their female friends and their health. An overweight cubicle worker takes a diet pill and loses forty pounds in eight hours; newly thin, her relationships with other women begin to change. A bossy stay-at-home mom's husband leaves her for a younger woman, and while she's trying to make sense of her suddenly altered life, she has an otherworldly experience. A young therapist struggles to face her terminal cancer diagnosis as her body slowly gives out. While on vacation in Italy, a successful copy editor who wants to escape from her life follows a stranger home. Don't miss this debut.

Julia Leggett was born in Calgary but grew up in Zimbabwe. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. She has served on the poetry editorial board for Prism magazine. Her work has appeared in Force Field: 77 Women Poets of British Columbia, edited by Susan Musgrave (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2013). She lives in Victoria, BC, where she is working on her masters in counselling psychology and a book of poetry. This is her first book.

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