num_pages: 143
description: Twenty tales of lust and loss. These stories feature clockwork hearts lascivious queens paper men island circuses and a flooded world. On the island of Skye an antlered girl and a tiger-tailed boy resolve never to be friends  but can they resist their unique connection? In an alternative 19th-century Paris a love triangle emerges between a man a woman and a coin-operated boy. A teenager deals with his sisters death by escaping from their tiny Scottish island  but will she let him leave? In 1920s New Orleans a young girl comes of age in her mothers brothel.Some of these stories are radical retellings of classic tales some are modern-day fables but all explore substitutions for love.
language: English
title: The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
publisher: Salt Publishing