Hot on the heels of her previous collection Men Who Feed Pigeons , Selima Hill's Women in Comfortable Shoes is the 21st book of poetry from "the UK's Emily Dickinson". This collection presents eleven contrasting but well-fitting sequences of short poems relating to women, including: Fishface , in which a disobedient young girl is sent to a Catholic convent school to give her mother a break; Fridge , in which trucks, geese and fridges speak of death, grief and absence; and Girls without Hamsters, which deals with an older woman's obsession with a spider-legged young man. Writing with her trademark wit and originality, Selima Hill looks closely at the complications and contradictions that define our lives and relationships.