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Whoever You Choose to Love: Stories

Whoever You Choose to Love: Stories

by Colette Paul (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

Throughout the media, Colette Paul's debut on the literary scene has been hailed as the birth of a startling new talent. In her unsettling, insightful and thoroughly poised collection of short stories she writes with freshness and vigour. A young woman goes to see the father who left her when she was a baby and ends up having to have a look at him in his coffin, a little girl watches from the top bunk as her older sister gets ready to go out, disappointed schoolgirls lie in wait for flashers, a woman takes her ill child with her on a hot date ...There are echoes of the wit of a young Muriel Spark in these contemporary tales of modern lives, a way of twisting the mundane to make it seem extraordinary.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 07 Jan 2005
ISBN 10: 0753818493
ISBN 13: 9780753818497
Book Overview: 5 stories from the book read on Radio 4 in January 05 Colette Paul has received huge attention in the media as a debut author 'So compelling it's a wrench to put it down...poignantly and perceptively written... this is an outstanding debut and definitely worth reading' Daily Record 'The stories are united by a wistfulness; a sense of disappointment acknowledged but not explored. And they're wonderful. Paul may be young but she understands a lot' Lottie Moggach, Time Out 'High and low culture are pleasingly intermingled in this collection, an inclusiveness that brings a welcome element of surprise and subversion to the stories...an impressive collection' Gerard Woodward, TLS 'An exquisitely carved short story collection... outstanding and talented are the claims on the back of the book. It's quite hard to argue' The List

Media Reviews
'a deeply affecting collection of contemporary tales of women of all ages, their lives, hopes and disappointments laid bare with refreshing and at times painful honesty.' HERALD (22.1.05) 'Colette Paul's debut is a very fine collection of stories about families and relationships, riddled with self-deception, disappointment, disillusionment and solipsism...Paul achieves a very similar effect to [Raymond] Carver, with a similar economy and grace...she has a distinct voice.' -- Laurence Phelan INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY (30.1.05)
Author Bio
Colette Paul was born in Glasgow and graduated with a first in English and Politics from the University of Glasgow. She has just graduated with distinction from the new Creative Writing department of the same university (run by James Kelman, Alisdair Gray and Tom Leonard) and is about to begin a Ph.D. in Creative Writing. She is 23 and lives in Glasgow. She was recently awarded a Scottish Arts Council award to help her to complete a first novel.