We Move

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Moving, truthful, straight from the heart (and a very capacious heart too), the stories in WE MOVE announce the arrival of a promising young writer we will be talking about for years to come. Gurnaik Johal, welcome. * Neel Mukherjee * Delicate, controlled and moving portraits of the strange, poignant dislocation wrought by both distance and proximity * Colin Barrett * A stunning collection * Evening Standard * A whole universe of lives intricately connected and woven together in a way that is wholly surprising and unobvious * Huma Qureshi, author of Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love * An assured and profoundly humane collection, rich in character and story * Jo Lloyd, author of The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies * 'These are excellent stories, told with skill and verve. Gurnaik Johal has a sharp eye for details, an ear for the gaps and evasions in real dialogue, and a heart for the hopes and regrets that carry us through our lives. But most of all, he has the instincts of a storyteller, and in We Move he has put those instincts to great effect' * Jon McGregor * Deft and defiant. These stories are told with real heart and dazzling speed * John Patrick McHugh, author of Pure Gold * With this beautiful, kaleidoscopic, moving, staggeringly full-of-life debut collection of stories, Gurnaik Johal has catapulted himself into the front rank of the chroniclers of the country we live in. You don't know Britain until you've read We Move * Rahul Raina, author of How to Kidnap the Rich * Conversational, brimful of beautifully observed descriptions of the sights and sounds of this world. * Daily Mail * To describe Johal as a writer to watch would be true but misleading, implying that we need to wait for better things to come. Better to say that he's a writer to read now. -- John Self * Observer *