Release date: 17 April 2025 with Influx Press

The Bookseller announcement

“There is a beautiful anthropology to Wyles’ writing; these are stories that know what makes us tick before we do.”

— Leah Dodd, author of Past Lives

“These compelling, acutely observed stories examine the points at which lives intersect. Characters connect and exit: passing each other, colliding, departing. They navigate their way through the heat of beginnings and endings, and try to make sense of everything in between.”

— Anna Taylor, author of Relief

“Deliverywoman builds a world that is both familiar and unfamiliar. Stories of debaucherous ski fields and summer house parties lead into stories of a desolate, post-pandemic future: where the streets are mostly empty and connection is fraught. These characters are lonely and often lost, but each story leaves you feeling that hope is just around the corner.”

— Joy Holly, author of Dream Girls

“I love a short story collection in which the author holds distinct moments up to examine them from different angles, letting the light hit them just so. This is what Eva Wyles does in Deliverywoman - life is shown to us by sometimes strange characters in often compelling settings. We are thrown into odd spaces where the rules are different from the everyday, though everything feels familiar, and we realise that, yes, life is absurd and it’s hard to figure out what to do next. Yet we have these companions, and the promise of a few good stories, brought together by a gifted writer, to keep us company.”

— Tina Makereti, author of The Mires