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Goodbye, Mother
Hanif Kureishi
‘If you think the living are difficult to deal with, the dead can be worse‘.
Fit Mother
Peter Ho Davies
‘The court had given me six months to prove I was a responsible adult and a fit mother’.
Our Nicky’s Heart
Graham Swift
‘Frank Randall had three sons: Michael, Eddy and Mark. That was fine by him‘.
Gifted
Richard Williams
‘The interim report filed by the investigator from the coroner's bureau listed him as a black male, 5ft 7in tall, weighing 1351b‘.
Caterpillars
James Lasdun
‘But he had engulfed her somehow; taken up residence in her imagination like some large, dense, intractable problem that had been given to her to solve.’
Provide, Provide
Daniyal Mueenuddin
‘You buy me things and then later you’ll think you bought me. I was never for sale.’
Lessons
Justin Torres
‘We were six snatching hands, six stomping feet; we were brothers, boys, three little kings locked in a feud for more.’
If I Could Tell You | New Voices
Soumya Bhattacharya
‘How will you later remember these years in Calcutta, your years of first, rapid, change in a city that had changed so much?’