Don't Try This at Home (Paperback)

Angela Readman

ISBN 10: 1908276525 / ISBN 13: 9781908276520

Published by And Other Stories, High Wycombe, 2015

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Paperback. A girl repeatedly chops her boyfriend in half but, while her 'other half' multiplies, she is still not satisfied. Love transforms a mother working down the chippie into Elvis. Clary's father puts antlers on stuffed rabbits to make jackalopes, but when her mother walks out on them, Clary has to help her father if they are to survive. Beautiful, sharp and fearless, Costa Short Story Award winner Angela Readman's debut collection is aptly titled, for each story packs its share of explosive material. Exposing all kinds of prejudice against age, status, disability the stories also offer quirky new strategies for troubled lives. If Angela Carter is Readman's fairy godmother, then David Lynch is her wicked stepbrother. Don't say you weren't warned . . . A girl who repeatedly halves her boyfriend; a chip-shop waitress who turns into Elvis; a family of conceptual artists who truly live their art. Every story packs its share of explosive material, often with a side of magic. If Angela Carter is Readmans fairy godmother, does that make Patti Smith her wicked stepsister? Dont say you werent warned. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Don't Try This at Home (Paperback)
• Publisher: And Other Stories, High Wycombe
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908276525
• ISBN 13: 9781908276520
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A girl repeatedly chops her boyfriend in half but, while her “other half” multiplies, she is still not satisfied. Love transforms a mother working down the fish and chip shop – into Elvis. Clary’s father puts antlers on stuffed rabbits to make jackalopes, but when her mother walks out on them, Clary has to help her father if they are to survive.

Beautiful, sharp and fearless, Costa Short Story Award winner Angela Readman’s debut collection is aptly titled, for each story packs its share of explosive material. Exposing all kinds of prejudice – against age, status, disability – the stories also offer quirky new strategies for troubled lives.

If Angela Carter is Readman’s fairy godmother, then David Lynch is her wicked stepbrother. Don’t say you weren’t warned. . .

About the Author

Angela Readman’s stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines, winning awards such as the Inskpill Magazine Short Story Competition and the National Flash Fiction Competition. In 2012 she was shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award for Don’t Try This at Home – an award she would go on to win in 2013 with the story The Keeper of the Jackalopes. In 2015, Readman won the Saboteur Awards Best Short Story Collection and the 2015 Rubery Book Award (Short Fiction Winner) for Don't Try this at Home. Readman is also a published poet.