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The World's Smallest Unicorn and Other Stories

On sale

5th November 2015

Price: £3.49

Selected:  ebook / ISBN-13: 9780349007120

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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

‘The romantic, bizarre, and sometimes murderous underpinnings of seemingly drab suburban lives are deftly revealed in ten densely written tales’ KIRKUS REVIEWS

An elderly woman, once an intrepid journalist, is paralysed with apprehension at the thought of meeting the daughter of her dearest friend. A budding writer is taken on a amanuensis by a famous woman novelist, with disastrous results. A would-be biographer visits a home from retired clowns . . . With her miraculously sharp eye for the telling detail, her nose for the secrets smouldering behind the most staid suburban facades, Shena Mackays’s wonderful collection of short stories combine the macabre and mundane to brilliant effect.

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Kirkus Reviews
The romantic, bizarre, and sometimes murderous underpinnings of seemingly drab suburban lives are deftly revealed in ten densely written tales
Times Literary Supplement
A highly original talent
Guardian
The Mackay vision . . . as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house
Independent
Mackay's gift for colour crops up frequently, her visual observations glittering throughout the collection like jewels
Daily Telegraph
Shena Mackay is a national treasure . . . She has achieved that rarest of things for a writer