Every One Still Here
Liadan Ní Chuinn
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHARLOTTE AITKEN SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARD FOR ‘NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR’
A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine’s bones. Bouquets are found all over a museum. Teenagers gather to dissect a human body. Brimming with compassion and thrumming with energy, these stories are scrupulous in their attention to detail, epic in their scope. In this bravura debut collection, Liadan Ní Chuinn delivers a consummate blend of the personal and the political.
These stories about Ireland and recent history face up to the truth of lives in a way that very little new writing I've read does. In doing this they change and recharge the potential of the short story form. Two have already become some of my favourite stories ever. — Ali Smith