Daemonwolfbooks (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} daemonwolfbooks) wrote,@ 2007-07-30 09:37:00 |
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9/10 - No Love Is This by Tracey Sinclair *Recommended*
Category: Ficton/Short Stories
Paperback: 156 pages
Publisher: Kennedy And Boyd (28 Feb 2006)
ISBN-10: 1904999301
ISBN-13: 978-1904999300
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noting_nothing Synopsis: A runaway gets more than she bargained for. A walk in the woods takes a sinister turn. A mistress finds that being a wife isn't all that it promised to be. Writing with incisive wit and dry humour, Tracey Sinclair probes the dark heart of everyday life in a collection of stories that strips bare the lies we tell one another and ourselves. Sometimes shocking, sometimes uplifting, always recognisable, these are tales that will stay with you long after you have read them. Tracey Sinclair is a Newcastle-born writer. Having lived in Glasgow for several years, she is currently based in London. She has written non-fiction for a number of publications and websites and her short stories have been published in magazines as diverse as Pulp Net, Printer's Devil and Woman's Weekly. She has also had work included in two anthologies (Northern Arc and The Blue Room) and performed on local radio. Her first novel, Doll, was published in 2005.
Short stories have stiff competition to make themselves memorable (Carver, Bates, Saki, Nabokov) but this set are very, very memorable. Dark, down to earth, bleak but with an underlying humour that makes them very re-readable. I'll be buying my own copy and I'm delighted to find another UK author to delight in. 9/10. (For a reminder of the scale used please see my profile.)
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