Hieroglyphics And Other Stories

Anne Donovan

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A beautiful collection - charming, witty and touching - these stories give voice to a variety of different characters: from the little girl who wants to look 'subtle' for her father's funeral, a child who has an email pen pal on Jupiter and an old lady who becomes a star through 'zimmerobics'. Often writing in a vibrant Glaswegian vernacular, Donovan deftly gives her characters authenticity with a searing power, aided and abetted by tender subtlety.

Reviews

"Hieroglyphics and Other Stories is Donovan's excellent debut collection. . . Donovan illuminates exactly the dislocations and intensifications that occur within a relationship, whether between lovers or mother and child." Daily Telegraph
"Anne Donovan's first collection of short stories establishes her as a voice to watch out for. Inventive and often gently humorous, Donovan's stories tell of women living at the outermost edges of emotion." Scottish Book Collector
"Not since Alan Spence came on the scene has anyone written better about childhood and her richly expressive Scots is neither forced nor fey. A page-turner to make you laugh and cry." Donny O'Rourke, Scotsman