EAN: 9781804990995

YOU HAVE A FRIEND IN 10A - MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD KAR...

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND 2022 WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZE-SHORTLISTED
GREAT CIRCLE 'The same chilling brilliance of Daphne du Maurier's most unsettling short
fiction' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Has an innate charm of its own. Beautifully realised' DAILY MAIL
'It's a rare writer who can create a world as convincingly over a few pages as in a 600-page
novel  Shipstead's fluency in both forms is testament to the skill she modestly casts as a work
in progress' Stephanie Merritt  GUARDIAN 'Maggie Shipstead combines cinematic scope with a
poet's attention to detail' THE TIMES A collection of sparkling award-winning stories from
Maggie Shipstead  epic storyteller and astonishing chronicler of the daring and the damaged.
Diving into eclectic and vivid settings  from an Olympic village to a deathbed in Paris to a
Pacific atoll  and illuminating a cast of unforgettable characters  Shipstead traverses the
ordinary and extraordinary with cunning  compassion  and wit. Meet the silent cowgirl and horse
wrangler escaping an ugly home life  only to fall into a decade-long triangle of unrequited
love  a male novelist who is just reckoning with his own pretentiousness as his debut novel
goes to print  a honeymoon couple's time in the hills of Romania builds into a moment of
shattering tragedy. In the title story  a famous child actress breaks away from a religious
cult  as she tells - with brittle candour - her tale of childhood damage and the dark side of
fame. Exuding both tenderness and bite  Shipstead exposes complicated truths in this dazzling
collection sealing her reputation as an astonishingly versatile master of fiction.
---------------------'Shipstead is a writer who can vividly summon whatever she chooses  taking
the reader deep inside the world she creates' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Shipstead observes people
beautifully' THE TIMES

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