Slights (novel)

Slights
First edition cover
AuthorKaaron Warren
LanguageEnglish
GenreHorror fiction
PublisherHarperCollins / Angry Robot
Publication date
July 2009
Publication placeUnited Kingdom / Australia
Media typePrint (paperback original)
Pages528
AwardsAustralian Shadows Awards for Best Long Fiction
Australian Ditmar Award for Best Novel
ISBN978-0-00-732242-8

Slights is a 2009 horror novel by Australian writer Kaaron Warren.[1] It is her debut novel and is about a woman who withdraws from society and has near-death experiences in which she enters a dark room where she is tormented by people she had previously slighted.[2] It was first published as a paperback original and e-book in the United Kingdom and Australia in July 2009 by Angry Robot, an offshoot of HarperCollins, and in the United States by Angry Robot in September 2010.

In general Slights was well received by critics, and went on to win the 2009 Australian Shadows Award for Best Long Fiction, and the 2010 Australian Ditmar Award for Best Novel.[3][4]

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