Nice Things

FROM THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2026 DISCOVERIES AUTHORStories traversing identity, sexuality, and human connection across the industrial towns and satellite villages of Northern England.Opening with the Commonwealth Prize-winning "Lech, Prince, and the Nice Things," the collection weaves through teenage sexual awakening, family secrets, and a closing dinner party where decades-old prejudice curdles into comedy. Characters grapple with class divisions, discrimination, and desires they barely understand themselves. Unflinching and deeply human, these stories capture pivotal moments when lives quietly but irrevocably change course.