You have a friend in 10A - Maggie Shipstead

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND 2022 WOMEN''S FICTION PRIZE-SHORTLISTED GREAT CIRCLE''The same chilling brilliance of Daphne du Maurier''s most unsettling short fiction'' FINANCIAL TIMES''Has an innate charm of its own. Beautifully realised'' DAILY MAIL''It''s a rare writer who can create a world as convincingly over a few pages as in a 600-page novel; Shipstead''s fluency in both forms is testament to the skill she modestly casts as a work in progress'' Stephanie Merritt, GUARDIAN''Maggie Shipstead combines cinematic scope with a poet''s attention to detail'' THE TIMESA collection of sparkling award-winning stories from Maggie Shipstead, epic storyteller and astonishing chronicler of the daring and the damaged. Diving into eclectic and vivid settings, from an Olympic village to a deathbed in Paris to a Pacific atoll, and illuminating a cast of unforgettable characters, Shipstead traverses the ordinary and extraordinary with cunning, compassion, and wit.Meet the silent cowgirl and horse wrangler escaping an ugly home life, only to fall into a decade-long triangle of unrequited love; a male novelist who is just reckoning with his own pretentiousness as his debut novel goes to print; a honeymoon couple''s time in the hills of Romania builds into a moment of shattering tragedy. In the title story, a famous child actress breaks away from a religious cult, as she tells - with brittle candour - her tale of childhood damage and the dark side of fame.Exuding bo
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