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This is a collection of short stories in which the author conjures up nightmares of the unexpected from the everyday world. It is written by the author of "Babies in Rhinestones", "A Bowl of Cherries", "Redhill Rococo", "Music Upstairs" and "An Advent Calendar".
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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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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0434440442
- ISBN 13 9780434440443
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