A Beautiful Lack of Consequence

A fierce and blazing debut short story collection from Monika Radojevic, winner of the 2019 #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize

‘Tender, humorous and moving’ COSMOPOLITAN

‘Visceral, wild, and so beautifully necessary.’ SALMA EL-WARDANY, author of THESE IMPOSSIBLE THINGS

‘Radojevic’s stories and fragments are so sharp-edged they could draw blood. Fierce, funny and angry.’ CATHERINE MAYER, author TIME/LIFE

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Across thirty striking tales, Monika Radojevic weaves together the surreal with the everyday, confronting the experiences of contemporary womanhood with a tender ferocity shot through with humour.

A woman walks into a bar, and nobody notices. A newly married couple are punished for their childlessness with an unsettling nocturnal invasion. A girl trades her vocal cords for a chance at freedom. A door-to-door salesperson offers the antidote to women’s fear – but it comes at a high price.

Bubbling with an urgent rage that occasionally tips over into vengeance, Radojevic deftly charts the moments that make a life- from the warmth of first love to the recognition of anger, and the possibilities that take shape as we find or lose our ability to speak. A Beautiful Lack of Consequence explores the ways in which the world bends and breaks women with the pressure it puts on them – and what happens when those women snap back.

Moving and irreverent, dark and otherworldly, A Beautiful Lack of Consequence is a blazing debut collection from the winner of the #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize.

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‘Thoughtful, introspective and darkly funny’ READER REVIEW

‘So beautiful and raw’ READER REVIEW

‘Biting . . . a must read!’ READER REVIEW

Author Biography

Monika Radojevic is a Brazilian-Montenegrin writer and poet who was born and raised in London. She spent years working in the feminist and political sector, and her writing is a continuous exploration of power dynamics, inequality and freedom. Monika is the inaugural winner of the #Merky Books New Writers’ prize, and writes to make sense of life. She has previously published a volume of poetry, Teeth in the Back of My Neck, and a short story collection, A Beautiful Lack of Consequence. Strangerland is her debut novel.