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A beautiful collection - charming, witty and touching - these stories give voice to a variety of different characters: from the little girl who wants to look 'subtle' for her father's funeral, a child who has an email pen pal on Jupiter and an old lady who becomes a star through 'zimmerobics'. Often writing in a vibrant Glaswegian vernacular, Donovan deftly gives her characters authenticity with a searing power, aided and abetted by tender subtlety.
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"Anne Donovan beautifully moves from thought Scots to said English and vice versa, in these completely convincing stories about the beginnings and ends of things; she traps children, happiness, Glasgow, surprise, in a style combining veracity and jokes with startling bliss and plenty grit." -- Candia McWilliam
"Sharp, compassionate storytelling that glows with the poignancy of childhood and the joy of a prohibited tongue." -- Michel Faber
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"Sharp, compassionate storytelling that glows with the poignancy of childhood and the joy of a prohibited tongue." -- Michel Faber
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- PublisherCanongate Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1841951099
- ISBN 13 9781841951096
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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