Fly on the Wall Press snaps up Fish's 'gripping' third novel

Manchester-based Fly on the Wall Press has snapped up Laura Fish’s third novel, Lying Perfectly Still, about a young woman working as an aid worker in South Africa.

Director Isabelle Kenyon acquired worldwide exclusive rights directly from the author. The book will be published on 18th November 2024. 

A "gripping work of literary fiction", Lying Perfectly Still follows Koliwe who travels to her "ancestral southern Africa" to work as an aid worker during the AIDS crisis. When Thandi, a local girl whom Koliwe befriends, goes missing, Koliwe tries to search for the truth and is "forced to face the complexities of her own past". The "compelling" narrative gives "an insider’s perspective on the horrors of the exploitation operating within parts of the international aid community".