Children's Children

'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 and a support group for the haunted: the characters in Children's Children are all falling apart in their own peculiar ways.

Told in Carson's distinctive magical-realist voice, her debut short story collection contains absurdist, darkly humorous and heartbreaking stories which explore the concept of legacy, and the impact of one generation upon the next.