Wait Till I Tell You - Softcover

Candia McWilliam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408822954 ISBN 13: 9781408822951

Publisher: Bloomsbury UK, 2011

Synopsis

Book by McWilliam, Candia

About this title

About the Author:

Candia McWilliam was born in Edinburgh. She is the author of A Case of Knives (1988), which won a Betty Trask Prize, A Little Stranger (1989), Debatable Land (1994), which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and its Italian translation the Premio Grinzane Cavour for the best foreign novel of the year, and a collection of stories Wait Till I Tell You (1997). In 2006 she began to suffer from the effects of blepharospasm and became functionally blind as a result. In 2009 she underwent an operation which harvested tendons from her leg in order to enable her to open her eyelids.

Review:

'Her words sparkle and fizz. She's never dull or conversational. Her work is like poetry in its scrupulousness and writerly care, yet at the same time it's devastatingly everyday ... Tuck into this mouthwatering collection for sustenance and delight' * Michele Roberts, Independent on Sunday * 'For sheer writerly distinction this year, my palm goes to Candia McWilliam for her collection of short stories' * Joanna Trollope, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year * 'The flaunt of the writing asks for admiration ... this is Candia McWilliam at her remarkable best' * Helen Dunmore, The Times * 'McWilliam is a magically originaly writer, arranging words like sweets, making phrases sumptuously fortuitous' * Julie Myerson, Mail on Sunday *

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1408822954
• ISBN 13: 9781408822951
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244