It's Gone Dark Over Bill's Mother's
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It's Gone Dark Over Bill's Mother's by Lisa Blower
With a sharp eye and tough warmth, Lisa Blower strikes a new chord in regional and working-class fiction.This fabulous collection of her award-winning short stories is dominated by the working-class matriarch. From the wise, witty and outspoken Nan of 'Broken Crockery', who has lived and worked in Stoke-on-Trent for all of her 92 years, to happy hooker Ruthie in 'The Land of Make Believe', to sleep-deprived Laura in 'The Trees in the Wood', to young mum Roxanne in 'The Cherry Tree', she appears in many shapes and forms, and always with a stoicism that is hard to break down.Lisa Blower celebrates her characters with stories they wouldn't want to be told. She makes the bleak funny and brings to life the silent histories and harsh realities of those living on the margins.'It's gone dark over Bill's mother's' is a Potteries' saying that means it's looking a bit bleak, a little like rain. With origins as footless and random as the barflies trying to find their meanings in 'Happenstance', it is an expression that sums up this fabulous collection.
Blower, Lisa: - Lisa Blower won The Guardian's National Short Story competition in 2009, was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2013, has been Highly Commended and longlisted for the Bridport Prize for three consecutive years, and was one of just four UK authors longlisted for The Sunday Times Short Story Award 2018. Her debut novel Sitting Ducks (Fair Acre Press) was shortlisted for the inaugural Arnold Bennett Prize 2017 and longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker 2016. Blower is a creative writing lecturer at Bangor University, Wales where she studied for her PhD.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781912408160 |
| ISBN 10 | 1912408163 |
| Title | It's Gone Dark Over Bill's Mother's |
| Author | Lisa Blower |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Myriad Editions |
| Year published | 2019-04-11 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Prizes | Winner of Arnold Bennett Prize 2020 |
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