The Scattering - McCarrick, Jaki

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Résumé :
The 18 short stories in this collection explore life on the Irish border, a fraught existence forever influenced by the Troubles.

Biographie:
Jaki McCarrick is a playwright, a short story writer, and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Liverpool Lennon Paper Poetry Competition Prize and the Wasafiri Prize for New Writing.

McCarrick's locations and characters are wonderfully diverse and we often get a touching insight into the human psyche. The prospect of her first full length novel is awaited with bated breath. - Gerard O'Hare, We love This Book ...an amazing body of work...this book deserves tremendous success and a very wide readership. - The Reading Life Blog 'Jaki McCarrick tells a chilling tale of death and despair.' - The Irish Emigrant 'The Sanctuary' ' - a tender story of mourning and longing.' - writewords.org.uk 'Of particular note - Jacqueline McCarrick's The Sanctuary; a tender portrait of a lover dealing with the death of a long-term partner. ' - Mark Brown, The Short Review 'The Badminton Court' 'I was totally knocked for six by this story. It is an incredible piece of writing - The spare, sinewy sentences had me going over and over them; and such economy of writing! I must, simply must see more of her work - ' - Alex Smith The Frogmore Papers 'The Visit' 'The Visit takes the reader deep into old sadnesses and lifechanging feuds which still burned under the surface of Irish society at the time of Bill Clinton's visit.' - Susan Haigh, The New Short Review 'By the Black Field' 'My highlights to date would be: Jaki McCarrick's By the Black Field... it has such an understated menace running through it and the writing is so subtly coloured, it reads like looking at a painting. - Brian Kirk, Wordlegs