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Throughout the media, Colette Paul's debut on the literary scene has been hailed as the birth of a startling new talent. In her unsettling, insightful and thoroughly poised collection of short stories she writes with freshness and vigour. A young woman goes to see the father who left her when she was a baby and ends up having to have a look at him in his coffin, a little girl watches from the top bunk as her older sister gets ready to go out, disappointed schoolgirls lie in wait for flashers, a woman takes her ill child with her on a hot date ... There are echoes of the wit of a young Muriel Spark in these contemporary tales of modern lives, a way of twisting the mundane to make it seem extraordinary.
'a deeply affecting collection of contemporary tales of women of all ages, their lives, hopes and disappointments laid bare with refreshing and at times painful honesty.'
HERALD (22.1.05)
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