Hope And Other Urban Tales

And Other Urban Tales

Laura Hird

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Urban tales of despair and dysfunction are Laura Hird's trademark and she does not disappoint in Hope and Other Urban Tales. Set in the low-rent areas of Edinburgh, Hird's slices of reality are gritty, bleak and often darkly funny. Yet the possibility of hope, always just out of reach, unifies this collection, conveying that just as circumstances can reveal the morally obscure darkness in 'good' people, so can seemingly irredeemable characters harbour well-hidden pockets of humanity.

Reviews

"Hird reminds one of the early Ian McEwan or Iain Banks, deeply unsettling, deathly comic and peculiarly tender." Sunday Times
"Bloody, believable and intoxicating.'" Herald
"Hird controls her material brilliantly. If you like your fiction with razor blades secreted in the soup, then get this, pronto." The Scotsman