Diamond Life: Short Stories - Couverture souple

Maconochie, Anna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1738459470 ISBN 13 : 9781738459476

Editeur : Heloise Press, 2026

Synopsis

The boundaries between friend, lover, and enemy blur in the lives of aspiring creatives in London. For lovers of Industry, Fleabag, Baby Reindeer, and Spent.

Nat sets Victor and Cleo up on a blind date, to their mutual disappointment. A married woman has seven other men, or does she?

Ghosts, exes and even her therapist make up her love life, threatening chaos but also irresistible fulfilment. Luckless Vicky lodges with glamorous Lara and suffers a romance with toxic loser Damian. A struggling artist, caught between two romantic trysts, is promised by a street fortune teller that it's all about to change. On a family holiday, a little girl meets a witch, who grants her unexpected wishes in adult life and becomes a famous film producer. Graduate Joe moves to London only to find his sought-after internship and social scene do not meet his expectations - particularly his would-be romance with older, troubled opera singer Marsha. Alex is in love with Paul. Paul is only half-in-love with Alex and totally in love with heroin. Candace and Jacob fear their vulnerable friend Jill will kill herself. Despite their class difference, Penny and Frank marry in old age. But Penny soon learns getting what you want isn't always the answer. An ordinary man, born with a long furry tale, strives to live a normal life. But when he removes the tail, it comes back to haunt him. A married man, split from his mistress, gets a surprise invitation from her for one last hurrah. What he finds in the Soho Hotel is not quite what he anticipated. Two schoolgirl frenemies fall in and out of touch in adult life. One seeks fame, the other to be a real artist. Unspoken passions and jealousies give way to a life-changing transaction.

For readers of Sally Rooney, Tessa Hadley, Angela Carter, Miranda July, Anne Enright, Camille Bordas, Roberto Bolaño, Hari Kunzru, Curtis Sittenfeld.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anna Maconochie was born and raised in London, where she still lives. After a decade in the film industry and the BBC she began writing short stories that touched on these settings as well as her home city. Her first stories appeared in the Erotic Review and then in several other print and online magazines, including the Dublin Review, the London Magazine and the Bitter Oleander. She has also had a story in Desire: 100 of Literature’s Sexiest Stories, compiled by Mariella Frostrup. In 2023 she received a Pushcart Prize nomination for her story Victor & Cleo in the Concho River Review. Her first published short story collection was ONLY THE VISIBLE CAN VANISH, with Cultured Llama Publishing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Heloise Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1738459470
• ISBN 13: 9781738459476
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible