Shine/Variance av Stephen Walsh

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<p><b>"</b><b>Great, beautiful little studies</b><b>of unspoken fear and longing and love, told with a sure-footed delicacy rare in a debut" Sarah Moss, <i>Irish Times</i></b><br><br><b>"</b><b>An exciting, original, and very welcome new voice" Donal Ryan</b><br><br><b>"These are startling, adventurous and often wonderful stories. I loved this collection" Roddy Doyle</b><br><br><b>A sharp and insightful debut short story collection about the pitfalls of ordinary life </b><br><br>A wife yearns to escape the tight-fisted confines of a package holiday. A boy dreams of footballing greatness as his mother mourns a loss. A man tries to assemble an absent child''s playhouse, with impossible instructions and too much beer. A woman seeks clarity from automated voices. A father is distracted from Christmas tree shopping with his son by the looming pressure of quarterly sales targets.<br><br><i>Shine/Variance</i> captures the tiny crises and wonders of daily life with warmth, wit and decisive cla