--- product_id: 54372359 title: "Fen: Stories" brand: "daisy johnson" price: "₹ 3320" currency: INR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.in/products/54372359-fen-stories store_origin: IN region: India --- # Fen: Stories **Brand:** daisy johnson **Price:** ₹ 3320 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Fen: Stories by daisy johnson - **How much does it cost?** ₹ 3320 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.in](https://www.desertcart.in/products/54372359-fen-stories) ## Best For - daisy johnson enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted daisy johnson brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Fen: Stories - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41VMCrVy7WL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Unsettled and Unsettling *by J***. on Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2019* I enjoy writing that is uncanny, something strangely familiar yet existing just outside of our understanding. Stories that are not so abstract that there's no ride or rise, but that are not afraid of ambiguity within their own dark dream. Someone will come away with a bloody nose, the reader, the writer, a character, possibly all three.Two such books I had read and reviewed on Facebook not so very long ago were Laird Hunt's spooky The House in the Dark of the Woods, sort of a Blair Witch in colonial times, but a fairy tale, unless it wasn't. The sense of "otherness," the headlong pitch of the language, the almost childlike sensibility of the narrator, was scarier than most bloody horror stories.The second was Daisy Johnson's Everything Under, which was about a lot of weird s***. Gretel, reconnecting with the mother who abandoned her. Their secret languages, fascination with words, words used in odd ways by the writer. Life in a houseboat on a canal. A runaway (Marcus/Margot), and her backstory. A strange deadly canal creature that may be imaginary. Oh, and a thread of the Oedipal recast in a gritty and muscular 21st century retelling.Many of the signature oddities of Everything Under are present in Johnson's previous book, a collection of short stories titled Fen. A bilgy canal; another Margot and a Marcus, though in separate tales; a smudging of what is "real" in some sort of cold fluorescent logical sense and some earthy crepuscular dreamworld.These are stories of metamorphoses, and in one the bad boy twin brother comes home drunk from a night of fighting every night, climbing through a second story window to his sister's room: "[H]e'd come to her with a story so hot in his mouth he couldn't help but tell it: the house that fell in love with a girl, the girl that starved into a fish." Readers will nod in wonder, because those tales comprise two earlier stories in this collection.In these stories, people slip from their human selves to something primal and wild and unpredictable. There is a feeling of landscape that is abandoned, not quite at the border with the canal of nightmare, not quite exiled from a post-industrial bleakness, a sense that the fen is stronger and deeper and more abiding than we might know. Fen is not just marshy land, unsettled and unsettling, it is pluripotent, what we run away from and return to, always. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fragments of Fate from the Fens *by W***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2018* An interlocking collection of stories set in the fens of eastern England, where women starve themselves into eels or wear the skins of the seduced and men disappear into the woods or at sea, perhaps to return as foxes or birds. There's an Angela Carter feel to some of the transformations (a comparison Ms Johnson is probably tired of) and with the same bloody edge threatening bodily violence. I think this ended up on my TBR pile because of a NYT review, and the collection certainly deserves that level of visibility. I suspect a second reading will turn up even more interconnections than I noticed on my first run through, and the book is easily good enough to entice me inside again, soon. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ New Territory *by M***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2019* I only give this book four stars (rather than its clearly deserved 5) because so much of it eluded me on first reading, which was like spending time with a quiet, self-possessed person who’s complexity and depth reveals itself slowly and grandly to the point where, by the end of your time together, you feel small and almost lost yet energized by the possibility of someday understanding them. There is darkness and poetry here. There is brilliance and the teeth of feral beasts. Many of these stories haunt me, for reasons I may never be able to voice. I will be returning to the Fen. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.in/products/54372359-fen-stories](https://www.desertcart.in/products/54372359-fen-stories) --- *Product available on Desertcart India* *Store origin: IN* *Last updated: 2026-05-06*