Of Flesh and Tears

For fans of Gillian Flynn and Tender is the Flesh

Of Flesh And Tears is a genre-bending psychological thriller about a woman whose fragile mental health is thrown into turmoil by the aggression of man and beast.

Following a painful divorce and a stint in a psychiatric hospital, Claire leaves Paris to take over the family farm. With neither support nor experience, she realizes that her fresh start won't be as easy as she'd anticipated.

She searches for meager comfort in Lucien, a vegan activist, who entrusts her with chickens seized from an animal testing research center for her to hide. He even persuades her to participate in his militant group's radical and dangerous activities. Claire's already fragile equilibrium is thrown into turmoil by the aggression of man and of beast. She soon discovers these chickens might be dangerous, threatening any animal and human who gets too close...

L.M. Rapp is the author of "Of Flesh and Tears", "Discordant Hearts", "A Question of Scent", and "Dreadful Beauty". Since childhood, she's been both troubled and fascinated by the animal side of human beings, and the small gap that sometimes separates our so-called civilized world from nature. Where does the animal end and the human begin? She explores this duality, as magnificent as it is monstrous, through her novels and short stories. It is perhaps because we are all, to varying degrees, chimeras.

L. O. Boult is a Welsh writer, editor and translator, working with the Japanese, French and Spanish languages. Having worked as an editor and translator on many novels, fiction and non-fiction, and as a story developer, localisation consultant and translator on games, his debut novel, the black comedy Stag Hunt, was published in 2020. His second novel, Atom Man, was released in 2022, focusing on cults and the live music scene in Cardiff. His translation of L.M. Rapp's Dreadful Beauty from French to English was published in 2022. He is now working on an anthology and his third novel.He is the former editor of the Welsh arts and culture magazine Buzz. He currently lives in south Wales and spends much of his time writing, reading and traveling with his fiancée.