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This set contains three Daisy Johnson works: "Sisters" + "Swamp" + "Deep Water". 1. "Sisters": Sisters Sepp Damper (September) and Juliet (July, July) wandered around with their mother, and finally moved into an abandoned house. In the turbulent new environment, Juliet discovered that she had always had a special bond with Sepp Damper, and even her mother was not allowed to enter their world. Things began to change in ways that Juliet couldn't quite figure out. In the house, the relationship between mother and daughter becomes increasingly tense, while outside the house, the appearance of a boy brings the sisters' shared experience to the limit... 2. "Swamp": A British swamp with complex terrain and a strange atmosphere. Mud paths, a teenage boy who might starve himself to death into the form of an eel... A house where he might fall in love with a girl and become jealous of her friends... A boy who might return from the realm of the dead disguised as a fox... The stories and folklore of this land merge to create something entirely new. Familiar instincts mix with shifting, unpredictable wildness, and the boundaries between human and animal are erased by myth and metamorphosis. 3. "Deep Water": The dictionary cannot cover all the words, and the compiler Gretel knows it better than most people. She was raised by her mother on a yacht, and as a child the two walked the Oxford canals together, conversing in the private language they created. When Gretel grew up, her mother disappeared and abandoned her in a foster care home. In order to find her mother, Gretel must retrieve her memories of the last winter by the canal. She is stalked by Ponak, an evil creature lurking in the canals. Bonac is Gretel's inner demon, and now, she must face it.

This book contains a total of 12 short stories. In these works, the British marshes are given a strange and complex atmosphere. Stories and folklore from this land merge to create something entirely new. In the muddy paths of a swamp, a teenager might starve himself to death into the form of an eel; a house might fall in love with a girl and become jealous of her friends. A boy may return from the realm of the dead disguised as a fox... These short stories are written in a style and character that transcends the boundaries of realism, where familiar instincts mingle with changing, unpredictable wildness, and where the boundaries between human and animal are erased by myth and metamorphosis. Johnson reveals the stories of these protagonists in a new, thoroughly modern voice that challenges the limits of the power of the short story.

Sisters Sepp Damper (September) and July (July) wandered around with their mother, and eventually moved into an abandoned house... In the turbulent new environment, Julie found that she had always had a special bond with Sepp Damper, and even her mother was not allowed to enter their world. Things began to change in ways that Juliet couldn't quite figure out. In the house, the relationship between mother and daughter becomes increasingly tense, while outside the house, the appearance of a boy brings the sisters' shared experience to the limit...

Dictionaries cannot contain all words, and Gretel, the compiler, knows this better than most. She was raised by her mother on a yacht, and as a child the two walked the Oxford canals together, conversing in the private language they created. When Gretel grew up, her mother disappeared and abandoned her in a foster care home. In order to find her mother, Gretel must retrieve her memories of the last winter by the canal... She is stalked by Bonac, an evil creature lurking in the canal. Bonac is Gretel's inner demon, and now, she must face it... Daisy Johnson uses avant-garde bold methods and shocking writing methods to interpret ancient Greek myths, and penetrate into the core of human destiny and free will.