Synopsis
'Daring, funny, heartbreaking' – Observer
'One of the greats' - Lucy Caldwell, author of Intimacies
'Comic brilliance' - Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations
* As Read on BBC Radio 4 * Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize * The Irish Times Books of the Year *
From the prize-winning author of The Benefactors, Wendy Erskine’s Dance Move is about the hugeness of life as...
Details
09 February 2023240 pages
9781529085228Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Comic brillianceSinéad Gleeson, Guardian
Erskine is less interested in dispensing wisdom than in evoking the ambient pathos of ordinary lives. The understated yet distinctive sensibility first showcased in her 2018 debut collection, Sweet Home, is well honed in this impressive follow-up.FT
Wendy Erskine has the rarest and most precious of a fiction writer’s gifts: the ability to unveil all the passion, pathos, comedy and beauty just beneath the surface of the most seemingly ordinary lives. She isn’t just one of the leading writers of short fiction at work today but one of the leading writers, period.Matt Rowland Hill, author of Original Sins
Wendy Erskine is the greatest short story writer of her generation. Dance Move is a masterpiece.David Keenan
