From the author of Husk, Brief Lives and The Blind Singer comes a riddling collection of persons and personae, truths and falsehoods, frank identities and masked selves. Chris Price's beautifully crafted fourth book features a medieval everyman called Churl, museum pieces, spells and shanties, an ode and a coda - and the drawings of Leo Bensemann. Generous in its consideration of character even as it wears the mask of tragedy or revenge, Beside Herself is a playful, shape-shifting performance.