Sweet Home - Softcover

Bray, Carys

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099510626 ISBN 13: 9780099510628

Publisher: Random House UK, 2018

Synopsis

They say there's no place like home. It's where the heart is...

Meet the little boy who believes in miracles.

Meet the mother who loves to bring babies home from the newborn aisle of her supermarket.

Meet the husband who carves a longed-for baby out of ice as a gift for his wife.

Meet the widow who is reminded of romance whilst standing at the kitchen sink.

In this prize-winning short story collection, Carys Bray weaves together moments of joy, heartache, sadness and unwavering love as told through seventeen very different notions of home.

About this title

About the Author:

Carys Bray was awarded the Scott Prize for her debut short-story collection, Sweet Home. Her first novel, A Song for Issy Bradley, was chosen for Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and winner of the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2015. She lives in Southport with her husband and four children.

Review:

"Accomplished, moving and unnerving, Sweet Home is a tour de force." —Independent

"Shades of Angela Carter colour Bray's title story while Fay Weldon and Jane Gardam are godmothers to Bray's fiction, bringing gifts of satire and observation that can prick and draw blood." —Guardian

"[Bray] explores parenthood, loss, childhood and belonging with razor-sharp prose, a killer eye for stop-you-in-your-tracks detail and a real understanding of the hidden cruelties and unexpectedly sharp comforts of family life." —Jenn Ashworth, author, The Friday Gospels

"Suburbia in all its tarnished glory - Carys Bray teases at the cracks, and pulls at the loose threads dangling, in short stories that are funny sad and achingly true." —Rob Shearman

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0099510626
• ISBN 13: 9780099510628
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192