The Slip by Miriam Webster
The Slip explores moments of connection, grief and yearning that ripple through everyday lives. These are stories about the things we can’t hold onto: a marriage drifting out with the tide, a family collapsing like a wave, a young woman’s affair that dissolves as quickly as it ignites.
From Melbourne to rural Victoria and beyond, lovers flounder in the push and pull of desire, and families are caught between duty and disarray. A restless couple are visited by an old flame, a washed-up playwright faces his demons in the wake of #MeToo and a woman returns to her childhood home to confront her twin brother’s ghost.
Elsewhere, a one night stand takes a sinister turn, an intoxicated eel writhes its way to the sea and a grieving gardener finds solace in the dirt beneath his nails. Brimming with dark humour, empathy and a sharp eye for the uncanny, The Slip is an electrifying debut by an utterly original new voice.
Forthcoming on 29 July 2025. This is when orders will be posted.
The Slip explores moments of connection, grief and yearning that ripple through everyday lives. These are stories about the things we can’t hold onto: a marriage drifting out with the tide, a family collapsing like a wave, a young woman’s affair that dissolves as quickly as it ignites.
From Melbourne to rural Victoria and beyond, lovers flounder in the push and pull of desire, and families are caught between duty and disarray. A restless couple are visited by an old flame, a washed-up playwright faces his demons in the wake of #MeToo and a woman returns to her childhood home to confront her twin brother’s ghost.
Elsewhere, a one night stand takes a sinister turn, an intoxicated eel writhes its way to the sea and a grieving gardener finds solace in the dirt beneath his nails. Brimming with dark humour, empathy and a sharp eye for the uncanny, The Slip is an electrifying debut by an utterly original new voice.
Forthcoming on 29 July 2025. This is when orders will be posted.
The Slip explores moments of connection, grief and yearning that ripple through everyday lives. These are stories about the things we can’t hold onto: a marriage drifting out with the tide, a family collapsing like a wave, a young woman’s affair that dissolves as quickly as it ignites.
From Melbourne to rural Victoria and beyond, lovers flounder in the push and pull of desire, and families are caught between duty and disarray. A restless couple are visited by an old flame, a washed-up playwright faces his demons in the wake of #MeToo and a woman returns to her childhood home to confront her twin brother’s ghost.
Elsewhere, a one night stand takes a sinister turn, an intoxicated eel writhes its way to the sea and a grieving gardener finds solace in the dirt beneath his nails. Brimming with dark humour, empathy and a sharp eye for the uncanny, The Slip is an electrifying debut by an utterly original new voice.
Forthcoming on 29 July 2025. This is when orders will be posted.
About the author
Miriam Webster’s fiction and essays have been published in Aniko Magazine, HEAT, Island, Overland, The Suburban Review, swim meet lit mag and certain zines. She is a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow and her work has been recognised in major prizes including the Calibre Essay Prize, the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, the Olga Masters Short Story Award and the inaugural KYD Nonfiction Essay Prize. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne. The Slip is her first book.
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ISBN: 978-0-6489898-0-6
Format: Paperback
Extent: 240pp
Publication date: 29 July 2025
Rights: World
Genre: Literary fiction
RRP: $29.99