'if there is no shelter' is an intricate novella-in-flash, narrated by a woman surviving in a city devastated by recent earthquakes. We never learn the narrator’s name or much about her life other that her lover died in the quake, whereas her husband survived. This is a complex story told in flash segments weaving the timeline before and after the disaster. There is genuine passion and raw emotion throughout, with moments or cruel reality and then extreme tenderness. The broken landscape described mirrors the narrator’s inner state. Incredible writing from Tracey Slaughter, at times beautiful and poetic but also brutally honest.