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Sweet Home
- Narrated by: Wendy Erskine
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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Summary
Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019.
Set in the author’s native Belfast, the 10 stories in Sweet Home lay bare the heartbreak and quiet tragedies that run under the surface of everyday lives. A lonely woman is fascinated by her niqab-wearing neighbours, a middle-aged teacher becomes obsessed with a young Gaelic football player and an employer covers for his two employees caught having sex in a public toilet.
Wendy Erskine offers perfectly formed, brilliantly observed portraits of people trying to carve out a life for themselves, all the while being buffeted by the loss, grief and regret that come their way. Warm, compassionate and funny, Sweet Home captures life in contemporary East Belfast, in all of its forms.
Critic reviews
"Wendy Erskine's first collection, Sweet Home...is every bit as good as her early stories in the always astute Stinging Fly magazine promised." (Jon McGregor, New Statesman)
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- Anonymous User
- 05-08-19
Short but definitely sweet
Knowing this writer personally I was intrigued to know how she would fare as an author. I wasn't disappointed. The stories are all very relatable. Nothing wildly unbelievable, just home grown stories about ordinary people, set in an area of Belfast where I grew up. If you are a fan of true to life, no nonsense fiction then this is the book for you. Well done Wendy!
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- Mark Jackson
- 26-05-20
inspiration
Original, soul prodding , devastatingly penned tales about nothing and everything.
brilliant brilliant set of short stories.
Real LOLs at various points, especially at the loyalist sex line.
Expertly voiced as Wendy lives each line.
highly recommended.
These stories stayed with me for days, especially Locksmiths and To All Their Dues.
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