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Praise for Chloe Wilson

‘The stories in Chloe Wilson’s Hold Your Fire are full of wit, intelligence, savage humour, and dark surprises. They combine the brilliant menace of Ottessa Moshfegh with the insight and control of Helen Garner; the result is a new Australian writer who made me feel less like a reader and more like a conspirator. I was transfixed.’

Fiona McFarlane, author of The Night Guest and The High Places

‘An astonishing collection. Astoundingly good. Suspiciously good, frankly, no debut should be this accomplished. These stories showcase a polymath’s mind and a poet’s sensibility in perfect, paranoid microcosms of our uneasy reality. Chloe Wilson writes with the surreal playfulness of Etgar Keret, the biting satire of Vladimir Nabokov, the delicious paranoia of Patricia Highsmith and the heart of Alice Munro. Tremendous.’

Liam Pieper, author of Sweetness and Light and The Toymaker

‘Chloe Wilson’s stories led me sentence by sentence down unpredictable, untrodden paths. I could never see what was coming. Never guess. Chilling, funny, and razor sharp – a writer in control every step of the way. How I relished this extraordinary and original collection.’

Sofie Laguna, author of Infinite Splendours and The Eye of the Sheep

‘Hold Your Fire brims with wicked humour and dark truths on the human psyche. Chloe Wilson’s writing is spare, sophisticated and totally assured – it’s hard to believe this is a debut collection. These stories are extraordinary.’

Rebecca Starford, author of Bad Behaviour and The Imitator

‘These stories are wonderfully strange, complex yet funny; they are otherworldly and unearthly but at the same time an expression of how we live in the world right now. Chloe Wilson is the magician who by her art brings to light all we usually prefer to keep hidden.’

Ceridwen Dovey, author of Only the Animals and In the Garden of the Fugitives

‘Chloe Wilson’s stories are spooky, profound, thrilling, hilarious and unbelievably beautiful. She shows us things we don’t dare see – desire and power, love and subterranean violence – with such mastery that the sheer beauty of them blows you away. I want to read everything she’s ever written, everything she’ll ever write. A truly extraordinary writer.’

Anna Funder, author of All That I Am and Stasiland

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