The best book yet from Britains answer to Lorrie Moore.Could your soul sing for a ghost Does your relationship need defrosting after a spell in the freezer Do you go on holiday with your heart heavier than your luggage The answers to these questions and others like them come only if you take your world, tip it on its side and look at it from underneath.Here are exiles from the good times, women caught in a backwash that carries them drifting out beyond comfort, beyond safety, beyond reach. Bond-girl blonde Auntie Fay comes to Spain for the summers, survives on insulin injections and insolent Irish jokes, tans to the hue of a blood blister and routinely saves the skins of Renee and her unfortunate family. The sixth form do Pembrokeshire, on a field trip that has them relishing stale cigarettes, smuggled scotch, Suffragette City and, ultimately, mutiny. A young woman contemplates the consolations of a loveless relationship, while another rejoices in the small miracles around her as death blooms. Here are women wandering in their own private hinterland, given new life and direction by a wonderful writer who knows that, sometimes, there is no other way to a heart than to saw through a breastbone.Britains answer to Lorrie Moore and Amy Bloom.
Dimensions: 0 x 210
Author: Suzannah Dunn
ISBN: 9780002256537
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 352