"Great, beautiful little studiesof unspoken fear and longing and love, told with a sure-footed delicacy rare in a debut" Sarah Moss, Irish Times
"An exciting, original, and very welcome new voice" Donal Ryan
"These are startling, adventurous and often wonderful stories. I loved this collection" Roddy Doyle
A sharp and insightful debut short story collection about the pitfalls of ordinary life
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.
Shine/Variance captures the tiny crises and wonders of daily life with warmth, wit and decisive cla
