Safely Gathered In by Sarah Schofield
A woman grows increasingly annoyed by her husband's emails, offering advice and reminders even months after his death... A taxidermist dreams of preserving one of his clients after she takes him out for a coffee... A grieving nurse is troubled by her daughter's fascination with the Iron Lady... In Safely Gathered In, Sarah Schofield probes at the heart of what forms us and what we, in turn, form. The stories collected here expose the spaces that words often fail to reach and examine how objects--both manmade and natural--can reflect the darkest manifestations of grief and disconnection. From the child acting out a family betrayal in the comfort of her dolls house, to the sister making wind-up toys from the dead birds she finds on her doorstep, this debut collection ventures into the surreal and delivers a sense of unease that leaves us questioning why we gather the things we do.
This is a deliciously wry Black Mirror-esque collection that provokes and disturbsA bold and brilliant debut. - Lucie McKnight Hardy, author of Water Shall Refuse Them; Schofield's collection comprises finely inventive stories, astute in their side angle swipes on reality. A memorable and distinctive debut. - Kiare Ladner, author of Nightshift; Sarah Schofield is a writer with tremendous rage and inventiveness, who takes the short story to new places - Naomi Booth, author of Exit Management; Sharp, insightful and haunting, these stories are not safe reading. An astounding debut. - Angela Readman, author of Something Like Breathing; An enchanting, vital collection. Strange, incisive and compelling. - Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch; This collection will feed you; savour it. - Tania Hershman, author of Some of Us Glow More Than Others and My Mother Was An Upright Piano; Schofield's stories are so well-observed and quietly intense that reading them means becoming more awake to the everyday world around us. - Claire Dean, author of The Museum of Shadows and Reflections
Sarah Schofield's stories have been published in Lemistry, Bio-Punk, Thought X, Beta Life, Spindles, Conradology and The New Abject (all Comma Press), Wall: Nine Stories from Edge Hill Writers (EHUP), Best of British Short Stories 2020 (Salt), Spilling Ink Flash Fiction Anthology, Back and Beyond Arts Publication, Litfest's The Language of Footprints, Synaesthesia Magazine, Lakeview International Journal, Woman's Weekly and others. She has been shortlisted on the Bridport and the Guardian Travel Writing Competition and won the Orange New Voices Prize, Writer's Inc and The Calderdale Fiction Prize. Sarah is an Associate Tutor of Creative Writing at Edge Hill University and runs writing courses and workshops in a variety of community settings.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781912697335 |
| ISBN 10 | 1912697335 |
| Title | Safely Gathered In |
| Author | Sarah Schofield |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Comma Press |
| Year published | 2021-11-04 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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