PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Another haunting and experimental novella from the master writer, this takes place over the course of a strange and difficult night in the mid 90s. Shy is a young man incarcerated in a last chance boys' home, but on this night he has broken out, carrying a rucksack full of carefully collected flints. As he sets out for his destination, his strangely-wired and twitchy brain replays past and present, giving him no peace from his mistakes and misdeeds. For such a short book, it packs quite a lot in, and is a powerful evocation of a lost and lonely boy. Lindy
Max Porter's first novel, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers,won the Sunday Times/Peters, Fraser + Dunlop YoungWriter of the Year, the International Dylan Thomas Prize,the Europese Literatuurprijs and the BAMB Readers'Award, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First BookAward and the Goldsmiths Prize. His second novel, Lanny,was a Sunday Times bestseller and was longlisted for theBooker Prize. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He has previously worked as a bookseller and editorand has also written The Death of Francis Bacon, the shortfilm All of this Unreal Time and the pamphlet It's Going toBe a Bright New Day.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Another haunting and experimental novella from the master writer, this takes place over the course of a strange and difficult night in the mid 90s. Shy is a young man incarcerated in a last chance boys' home, but on this night he has broken out, carrying a rucksack full of carefully collected flints. As he sets out for his destination, his strangely-wired and twitchy brain replays past and present, giving him no peace from his mistakes and misdeeds. For such a short book, it packs quite a lot in, and is a powerful evocation of a lost and lonely boy. Lindy
