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Small Forest : Nine Short Stories
Strawberry Hills
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Spineless Wonders
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2018
14975848
2018
selected work
short story
'Small Forest is a collection of nine short stories. The stories are linked by recurring concerns, such as the return of the repressed. The effects of music and the nature of relationships between generations are other concerns. In ‘Vivien’s Fingers’ a new parent tries to learn the piano, in an attempt to maintain an inner life separate from her young child. ‘Children’s Hospital’ depicts a ward of children suffering anorexia, while ‘Uncle Dan’s War’ explores the effects of post-traumatic stress on a returned POW. The protagonists are varied in these stories – and variously haunted.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2018 finalist The Carmel Bird Award
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