The Truth Has Arms and Legs by Alice Fowler
Delve into a world of change and reinvention. Where relationships are as delicate as turtle eggs, and just as easily smashed. In change, Fowler's characters find the ability to be truly free.
"Poignant and perfectly paced, these lovely stories lean towards happy outcomes, compassionate compromises, unexpectedly rewarding friendships and good deeds" - Eithen Farry, The Daily Mail, UK. "These are precious things: stories written with delicacy and heart. Chance meetings and significant moments are rendered precisely and to such moving effect, in this deeply skilful and wise collection." - Wendy Erskine; "A wonderful, flawless and fantastic collection. The one book you MUST buy this year if you want to read a masterclass of affecting writing." - Linda Hill's Book Bag; "Alice Fowler's collection of short stories capture precise and intimate moments of being. Caught out by sudden and capricious turns in emotion, Fowler asks us to observe the whimsical, often callow, responses humans make as they declare who they are in the face of grievance and loss: humans preparing to start again. Fowler's spare and modest style underscores a particular sensitivity to the relationship between individuals and their natural environment; the way in which green spaces and forms of botanical and organic life can alleviate and disperse negative emotion, entangled, unresolved habits of mind." - Sally Bayley; "Fowler has weaved a collection of stories out of fine, tender threads. Each one vibrates with her compassionate observation of life in its multitudinous forms." - Vanessa Onwuemezi; "These elegant, atmospheric short stories are filled with passion, renewal and movement. Each has a certain quiet strength all of its own, drawing us into rich histories and dramatic moments of change." - Imogen Robertson
Alice Fowler is drawn to writing about outsiders: people whose lives have gone awry and how they try to wrest them back. Landscape and the natural world are powerful sources of inspiration. She enjoys how, in the short story form, complex threads can be unpicked and rewoven, within a relatively small word count. She worked as a journalist until 2006, writing features and interviews. Her short stories have won and been printed in anthologies. She won the Historical Writers’ Association short story prize in 2020 and the Wells Festival of Literature short story prize in 2021. She has been shortlisted for the Harper’s Bazaar short story prize and the Bournemouth Writing Prize. Alice also writes longer fiction. Her historical novel was longlisted for the 2021 Stylist Feminist Fiction Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781915789082 |
| ISBN 10 | 1915789087 |
| Title | The Truth Has Arms and Legs |
| Author | Alice Fowler |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Fly on the Wall Press |
| Year published | 2023-07-14 |
| Number of pages | 100 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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