English Magic
Author | : Uschi Gatward |
Publisher | : Galley Beggar Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2021-09-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781913111113 |
ISBN-13 | : 1913111113 |
Rating | : 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Download or read book English Magic written by Uschi Gatward and published by Galley Beggar Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Magic moves through fields and parklands, estates and empty beaches. It lands at Heathrow Airport, takes a taxi to the suburbs, finds emptiness and oppression. It strikes out for the countryside on May Day, to where maypoles whirl and haybales blaze, and where blessings sound like threats. It's in a flat, drags itself out of half sleep... and there's something tapping behind the gas fire... In her debut collection of short stories, Uschi Gatward takes us on a tour of an England simultaneously domestic and wild, familiar and strange, real and imagined. Coupling the past and the present, merging the surreal and the mundane, English Magic is a collection full of humour and warmth, subversion and intoxication. It announces the arrival of a shining new talent.