Sweet Home
  • Published: 1 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9780099510628
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $22.99

Sweet Home

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25 Feb 2016
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1 Apr 2016
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The award-winning short story collection from the author of A Song for Issy Bradley, shortlisted for the COSTA First Novel Prize 2015.

They say there's no place like home. It's where the heart is...

Meet the little boy who believes in miracles.

Meet the mother who loves to bring babies home from the newborn aisle of her supermarket.

Meet the husband who carves a longed-for baby out of ice as a gift for his wife.

Meet the widow who is reminded of romance whilst pegging out the washing.

Awarded the Scott Prize for short story writing, Sweet Home weaves together moments of joy, heartache, sadness and unwavering love as told through seventeen very different notions of home.
  • Published: 1 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9780099510628
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Carys Bray

Carys Bray was awarded the Scott Prize for her debut short-story collection, Sweet Home. Her first novel, A Song for Issy Bradley, was chosen for Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and winner of the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2015. She lives in Southport with her husband and four children.

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Also by Carys Bray

When the Lights Go Out
The Museum of You
A Song for Issy Bradley
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Praise for Sweet Home

[Bray] explores parenthood, loss, childhood and belonging with razor-sharp prose, a killer eye for stop-you-in-your-tracks detail and a real understanding of the hidden cruelties and unexpectedly sharp comforts of family life

Jenn Ashworth, author of The Friday Gospels

Suburbia in all its tarnished glory - Carys Bray teases at the cracks, and pulls at the loose threads dangling, in short stories that are funny sad and achingly true

Rob Shearman

Accomplished, moving and unnerving, Sweet Home is a tour de force.

Independent

Shades of Angela Carter colour Bray's title story while Fay Weldon and Jane Gardam are godmothers to Bray's fiction, bringing gifts of satire and observation that can prick and draw blood.

Guardian