A dazzling first novel about kinship and kindness, guilt and restitution and the ways in which the present is carved out of an unforgiving past.
Vanessa has previously written two collections of short stories (published by Salt Publishers). She has also won numerous prizes for her short stories. An extract from The Coward's Tale won the Daily Telegraph Novel in a Year Competition. In addition, Vanessa has compiled a text book on the art of the short story (Short Circuit - published by Salt) which is now used by creative writing courses throughout the UK and elsewhere and which is endorsed by Bridport, Fish, The Asham Trust and the Frank O'Connor Award. Vanessa has read and performed workshops at numerous festivals, as well as being writer-in-residence at Stockholm University this year. Vanessa is Welsh but lives in Sussex. www.vanessagebbie.com.
My novel of the year ... an extraordinarily lyrical, moving, funny
evocation of a Welsh mining town ... A terrific achievement
*Financial Times Book of the Year*
Spellbinding
*Guardian*
Gebbie's prose has something of the musical rhythm and cadence of
Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood ... a hypnotic debut
*Independent*
A striking first novel, poetic in style and funny ... reminiscent
of Dylan Thomas at his best
*Guardian*
‘Tender and gripping - a brilliantly written epic'
*Maggie Gee*
‘Compulsively readable. She writes with such warmth and kindness
and her poetic writing is meticulous in its apt and close
observation'
*Mari Strachan, author of The Earth Hums in B Flat*
Powerful in its storytelling, touching in its view of small-town
life, and bold in its stylised language
*New Welsh Review*
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