Blánaid McKinney - Big Mouth
Phoenix House

This debut collection comprises eleven electrifying short stories.
Her themes are the nature of love, and coping with lost love and bereavement; the nature of violence, its uses and abuses and often inexplicable arbitrariness; and the nature of loyalty, and difficult moral choices.
It is unlikely that a more bracing and invigorating debut collection of short stories will be published in this, or indeed many another, year. More please, as soon as you’re ready.
Review by Desmond Traynor, Books Ireland.

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