We’ve all been there, terrified to move forward but incapable of moving back. At certain points it felt like she was just treading water, paralysed by indecision. Rose is looking for something she feels is lacking in her life, but she is also petrified of finding it. Whiteley perfectly captures the contradictions that exist within us all. Rose Allington acts as the narrator of her own story, and this offers insight into her innermost thoughts and feelings. Where Pinborough’s work explores how we view and try to understand death, Whiteley’s work picks apart the nature of love in all its forms. It’s rare, but it does happen from time to time The Language of Dying by Sarah Pinborough immediately springs to mind. The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley has found a place on this very select list.
Very occasionally, I’ll read a piece of writing that takes my breath away. When one of his skins is stolen, and the theft is an inside job, he needs the best who ever worked for him on the job – even if she’s not the same person. Meanwhile, her former client, superstar actor Max Black, is hooked on Suscutin, because he knows moulting could lose him everything. Her moults come quickly, changing everything about her life, who she is, who she loves. Now you never need to change who you are.īut it’s not so simple for celebrity bodyguard Rose Allington, who suffers from a rare disease. Introducing the new drug, Suscutin, that will prevent the moult. And when our loves are part of us, those memories of love can be bought, if you know the right people. When people shed their skin every seven years, it’s just a fact of life that we will cast off all the attachments of our old life.
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