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Dreams of Dead Women's Handbags

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5th November 2015

Price: £3.49

Selected:  ebook / ISBN-13: 9780349007113

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FROM THE AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE (1996) AND THE WHITBREAD PRIZE (2003)

‘The Mackay vision . . . as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house’ GUARDIAN

‘A national treasure . . . She has achieved that rarest of things for a writer’ DAILY TELEGRAPH


‘A highly original talent’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

In stories as intriguing as their titles – Pink Cigarettes, Electric Blue Damsels, Other People’s Bathrobes – Shena Mackay demonstrates her uncanny ability to expose the menace of everyday life with humour and haunting accuracy. Harnessing Mackay’s darkly comic vision, an astonishing originality and vibrant prose, these remarkable short works provide ‘novel-worthy dimensions in a few pages’ (New York Times Book Review).

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New York Times Book Review
Novel-worthy dimensions in a few pages
Daily Telegraph
Shena Mackay is a national treasure . . . She has achieved that rarest of things for a writer
Guardian
The Mackay vision . . . as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house
Times Literary Supplement
A highly original talent
Publishers Weekly
American readers new to Mackay's stories have something really special waiting for them