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An elderly schoolteacher recalls the single act of youthful passion that changed her life forever. A young gardener has an unsettling encounter with a suburban housewife. A teenage girl strikes up an unlikely friendship with a lonely bachelor.
In these twelve haunting stories award-winning writer Mary Costello examines the passions and perils of everyday life with startling insight, casting a light into the darkest corners of the human heart.
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"This is a writer unafraid of the graveside, or the bedside, of filling the space of the story to the brim. Large events happen in small lives . . . Her writing has the kind of urgency that the great problems demand . . . With a bit of luck, they could keep her at the desk for the rest of her life" (Anne Enright Guardian)
"So intricately wrought, so unique and enthralling as to be utterly bewitching" (Sunday Independent)
"Simply a masterpiece" (Irish Independent)
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"These stories want all of you, mind and body and soul, like a consummation" (Sonya Chung The Millions)
"In 15 pages, we feel the breadth and depth of a life and its regrets" (Irish Times)
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"So intricately wrought, so unique and enthralling as to be utterly bewitching" (Sunday Independent)
"Simply a masterpiece" (Irish Independent)
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Echoing Thomas Hardy, she reveals how even ordinary lives can be full of drama and incident . . .
Beautifully crafted but never pretentious, Costello's stories are stark and honest and her characters linger long after you close the book
"These stories want all of you, mind and body and soul, like a consummation" (Sonya Chung The Millions)
"In 15 pages, we feel the breadth and depth of a life and its regrets" (Irish Times)
The critically acclaimed story collection from the author of Academy Street
Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award
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- PublisherStinging Fly Pr
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 190653926X
- ISBN 13 9781906539269
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages182
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