Appetites
Stories of Love Sex and Death
Published on 28. October 2019
200 pages
978-1-83859-685-9 (ISBN)
Description
A solitary woman, her life changed by an afternoon of 'wanting, wanting, wanting', becomes obsessed with a writer at his desk by the window below.
A nameless, middle-aged narrator, his sexuality awakened by the manipulative mother of a classmate, looks back to that hot summer in the 'Garden of Eden', where young lives were changed and ruined.
And Lennie-girl's father, craving the warmth of his birthplace, forsakes his daughter and vulnerable son.
Three stories from a nineteen-story collection in which themes of love and loss, break up and renewal, pleasures and regrets, weave in and out of the lives of protagonists whose ages range from thirteen to sixty-something.
A nameless, middle-aged narrator, his sexuality awakened by the manipulative mother of a classmate, looks back to that hot summer in the 'Garden of Eden', where young lives were changed and ruined.
And Lennie-girl's father, craving the warmth of his birthplace, forsakes his daughter and vulnerable son.
Three stories from a nineteen-story collection in which themes of love and loss, break up and renewal, pleasures and regrets, weave in and out of the lives of protagonists whose ages range from thirteen to sixty-something.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leicester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Troubador Publishing
File size
1,94 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-83859-685-9 (9781838596859)
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Previously a successful illustrator and cartoonist, Maggie Ling's prose has been listed in numerous international short story competitions, including a shortlisting for the Bridport Prize, and published in Unthology1 (Unthank Books, 2010), Something Was There (Virago, 2011), Unthology 5 (Unthank Books, 2014), and online by Seren Books (October 2017) and Fairlight Books (May 2019). She lives in Norwich, a UNESCO city of literature.
