Children's Children
$22.15
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
18 February 2025
Summary
A reissue of the debut short story collection from the multi-award-winning author of The Raptures, with a new bonus story.
Read the debut short story collection from the multi-award-winning author of The Raptures, now updated with a new bonus story.
‘Jan Carson is a born storyteller’ — Lisa McInerney
A floating six-year-old tethered to the backyard fence; two siblings watching their parents argue inside a greenhouse; a human statue who’s lost the ability to move; a sup…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804995822 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804995827 |
| Author: | Jan Carson |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 18 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 174g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Jan Carson
Jan Carson is a writer based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim, followed by a short-story collection, Children’s Children (2016), and two flash fiction anthologies, Postcard Stories (2017) and Postcard Stories 2 (2020). Her second novel, The Fire Starters (2019), won the EU Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Dalkey Novel of the Year Award and her third novel, The Raptures (2022) was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the Kerry Group Novel of the Year. Her most recent short story collection, Quickly, While They Still Have Horses, was published in 2024. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She has won the Harper’s Bazaar short-story competition and has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, the An Post Irish Short Story of the Year, and the Sean Faolain Short Story Prize.
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