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Sweet Home : Stories by Wendy Erskine is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sweet Home : Stories about?
'Wendy Erskine's first collection, Sweet Home . . . is every bit as good as her early stories in the always astute Stinging Fly magazine promised.' Jon McGregor, New Statesman Set in the author's native Belfast, the ten stories in Sweet Home lay bare the heartbreak and quiet tragedies that run under the surface of everyday lives. A reclusive cult-rock icon ends his days in the street where he was born; a lonely woman is fascinated by her niqab-wearing neighbours; a husband and wife become enmeshed in the lives of the young couple they pay to do their cleaning and gardening. Set in contemporary East Belfast, these eleven acutely observed short stories come charged with regret and sorrow, desire and yearning. With clear-eyed compassion and wry humour, Wendy Erskine deftly lays bare her characters' struggle to maintain control in an often cruel world, where tragic events cast long shadows. Sweet Home heralds the...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Wendy Erskine
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan UK;Picador
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781760787219
- Category
- work of fiction
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