Letters Home by Martyn Bedford
When an out-of-work actor discovers his bedsit once belonged to an obscure, suicidal painter, he turns his talents to re-creating the ultimate site-specific performance... As a teenage girl drifts from depression into a permanent state of sleep, she becomes the focus of both scientific interest and an unexpected, cult following... Against a backdrop of hooliganism and hostility, an asylum seeker writes letters home assuring his family how welcoming England is... Many of the characters in Martyn Bedford's stories find themselves at a point of redefinition, trading in their old identity for something new. Whether it is an act of retreat or escape - fantasising about storming out of a thankless job, or just avoiding a bad-tempered husband for a few moments on Christmas day - they each understand the first step in changing a reality, is to reconstruct it.
'Haunting and intimate portraits of vividly different lives that get under your skin and stay there' --Jeremy Dyson; 'Letters Home further establishes Martyn Bedford as a stand-out writer of highly memorable fiction.' - Jacob Ross; 'A splendidly moving and varied collection.' - Jane Rogers
Martyn Bedford is the author of five novels for adults: Acts of Revision, which won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award, Exit, Orange & Red, The Houdini Girl, Black Cat, and The Island of Lost Souls. He is also the author of three novels for young adults: Flip (shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award, and winner of four awards including the Sheffield Children's Book Award and Calderdale Book of the Year), Never Ending, and Twenty Questions for Gloria, winner of the 2017 Coventry Inspiration Book Award. He has been translated into fifteen languages.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781905583751 |
| ISBN 10 | 1905583753 |
| Title | Letters Home |
| Author | Martyn Bedford |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Comma Press |
| Year published | 2017-11-16 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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