Hieroglyphics And Other Stories

Author: DONOVAN, ANNE

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 1 January 1800 by Canongate Books in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 176 pages
197 x 129 x 12 | 132g

A beautiful collection - charming, witty and touching - these stories give voice to a variety of different characters: from the little girl who wants to look 'subtle' for her father's funeral, a child who has an email pen pal on Jupiter and an old lady who becomes a star through 'zimmerobics'.

Often writing in a vibrant Glaswegian vernacular, Donovan deftly gives her characters authenticity with a searing power, aided and abetted by tender subtlety.