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Diving Belles
Lucy Wood
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Description for Diving Belles
Paperback. A luminous, startling and utterly spellbinding debut which introduces a spectacular new voice in contemporary British fiction Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200. 240 pages. A luminous, startling and utterly spellbinding debut which introduces a spectacular new voice in contemporary British fiction. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 15. Weight: 168.
LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2012 Along Cornwall's ancient coast, from time to time, the flotsam and jetsam of the past can become caught in the cross-currents of the present and a certain kind of magic floats to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Houses creak, fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants. And, on a windy beach, a small boy and his grandmother keep despair at bay with an old white door. In these stories, hopes, regrets and memories are entangled with catfish, ... Read more
LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2012 Along Cornwall's ancient coast, from time to time, the flotsam and jetsam of the past can become caught in the cross-currents of the present and a certain kind of magic floats to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Houses creak, fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants. And, on a windy beach, a small boy and his grandmother keep despair at bay with an old white door. In these stories, hopes, regrets and memories are entangled with catfish, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408830437
SKU
V9781408830437
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-4
About Lucy Wood
Lucy Wood has a Master's degree in Creative Writing from Exeter University. She grew up in Cornwall. Diving Belles is her first work.
Reviews for Diving Belles
Utterly different in every way from Keret, in their Angela Carter-ish Englishness, but equally compelling
Erica Wagner
The Times
Wood's finely wrought collection has touches of a benign Angela Carter and recalls the playful yet political transmogrifications of Atwood and Byatt
Guardian
[A] refreshing debut collection about seasiders young and old ... A winning combination ... Read more
Erica Wagner
The Times
Wood's finely wrought collection has touches of a benign Angela Carter and recalls the playful yet political transmogrifications of Atwood and Byatt
Guardian
[A] refreshing debut collection about seasiders young and old ... A winning combination ... Read more