Mary Lavin is the great unsung voice of Irish fiction. Here are her very best, most electric stories illuminating, moving, arrows in flight. This is a wonderful collection, and a reminder that Mary Lavin was is one of Irelands greatest writers Roddy DoyleMary Lavins stories feature ordinary people in the tight confines of ordinary life. From rural Ireland and the streets of Dublin they charm, irritate and intrigue in complicated brilliance, appearing to us with unique freshness. Good friendships, bad deeds, frustrations, missteps, hope and laughter are all found in captivating stories where real and astonishing things happen. Few women were so consistently published in the New Yorker and yet today Lavins work is largely unpublished and overlooked. This collection reestablishes her as one of the most genius, irresistible and memorable voices of the last century. SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY COLM TIBNShe is, to come right out with it, magnificent New York TimesA feast of quiet humour and heartbreak Emma DonoghueMary Lavins stories conjure sadness, profundity, hilarity and wildness out of thin air. They are simply masterful Colin BarrettMary Lavins stories are a delight. They are delicate, but not too delicate to carry tragedy on one shoulder and comedy on the other Sunday Times

Binding: Hardcover;304 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 632 g; Dimensions: 223 x 147 x 38

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