Winner of the 2015 International Frank O'Connor Short Story Award
Winner of the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize
Shortlisted for the 2015 Wales Book of the Year: Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2015 Edge Hill Short Story Prize
The Globe 100: The Best International Fiction of 2017
In a remote Australian settlement a young wife with an untellable secret reluctantly invites her neighbour into her home. A Quaker spinster offers companionship to a condemned man in a Colorado jail. In the ice and snows of Siberia an office employee from Birmingham witnesses a scene that will change her life. At a jubilee celebration in a northern English town a middle-aged alderman opens his heart to Queen Victoria. A teenage daughter leaves home in search of adventure. High in the Cumbrian fells a woman seeks help from her father's enemy.
Spare, precise, charged with a prickly wit, the stories in Carys Davies's sparkling second collection remind us how little we know of the lives of others.
<p>The Quiet</p><p>On Commercial Hill</p><p>Jubilee</p><p>The Travellers</p><p>Myth</p><p>Bonnet</p><p>First Journeyman</p><p>Precious</p><p>The Taking of Bunny Clay</p><p>Miracle at Hawk's Bay</p><p>In the Cabin in the Woods</p><p>The Coat</p><p>The Redemption of Galen Pike</p><p>Wicked Fairy</p><p>Creed</p><p>Nothing Like My Nightmare</p><p>Sibyl</p><p>Notes &amp; Acknowledgements</p><p>Note on 'Bonnet'</p>