Dreams of Dead Women's Handbags: Collected Stories (Harvest Book) - Softcover

MacKay, Shena

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9780156005333: Dreams of Dead Women's Handbags: Collected Stories (Harvest Book)

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ISBN 10: 0156005336 ISBN 13: 9780156005333

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1997

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A collection of tales ranging from hilarious to chilling includes the story of a novelist who stumbles upon memories from her horrific past while devising the plot for her next mystery

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Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh in 1944. Her writing career began when she won a prize for a poem written when she was fourteen. Two novellas, Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumberger and Toddler on the Run were published before she was twenty. Redhill Rococo won the 1987 Fawcett Prize, Dunedin won a 1994 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, The Orchard on Fire was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize and, in 2003, Heligoland was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and Whitbread Novel Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Southampton.

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