Beyond Kidding by Lynda Clark

Beyond Kidding by Lynda Clark

When Robert (or Kidder, as his best friend calls him) decides to impress at a job interview by making up a son, he discovers that maintaining the lie is far harder than he thought--so he invents a story that 'Brodie' has been kidnapped. After all, it's not like they're going to find the fake boy. But a few weeks later, Kidder receives a call to collect his non-existent son from the police station--a boy who looks exactly like the picture he photoshopped. . . A darkly humorous, genre-bending work of literary sci-fi. Lynda Clark is a new talent to discover for lovers of Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Coupland.

`A dark and quirky debut - funny, sad, thought-provoking and unexpected' -Emma D'Costa, Commonwealth Writers

`This is a remarkable debut, written with great warmth and witBy turns devastating and hilarious, Lynda Clark's Beyond Kidding had me from the very start, and it didn't let me go' -Sarah Jackson, author of Pelt and winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize 2013

An award-winning short fiction writer, Lynda Clark’s work has been widely published in anthologies and her short story ‘Ghillie’s Mum’, published in Dreaming in Quantum (Fairlight Books, 2021), won the regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Europe and Canada and was shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Award. Her debut novel Beyond Kidding was published by Fairlight Books in 2019 and has been optioned by a major film studio. With a PhD in Interactive Narratives, Lynda is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh and has experience working as a bookseller and as a writer and producer for a videogame company.

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ISBN 13	9781912054848
ISBN 10	1912054841
Title	Beyond Kidding
Author	Lynda Clark
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Fairlight Books
Year published	2019-10-31
Number of pages	336
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