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Book SynopsisIn eleven beautifully observed stories, told with intelligent and textured prose, we travel far and wide to disparate places and distinctive cultures. Whether the protagonists are dealing with migration or climate change, acts of terrorism or the intricacies of family relationships, each story turns on a moment that touches the human condition, connecting us to a single encounter. With a finger on the political and cultural pulse, Ultramarine is a generous, finely-tuned collection for the times we live in.
Trade ReviewExquisite and emotionally astute prose...one is moved to weep.-Lorian Hemingway;Lucy Weldon's stories are always sparky, witty, precisely detailed and urgently topical, just as her characters are courageously passionate and curious about the contemporary world in all its glorious and ominous complexity. Like a seismograph Ultramarine slyly registers rumblings along international fault lines-without ever forgetting to acknowledge the primacy of love...- Alan Mahar, author and short story writer;Weldon uses the backdrop of several nations to tell the stories of multiple characters facing challenges that are as intricate as the countries she finds them in.- Akeem Balogun, author of The Storm, a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award;Weldon's collection amazes with the range of places to which it takes us. From story to story, we are moving fast over great global distances but ultimately each piece pulls us to that single place common to them all, the heart. Weldon writes with great care and respect for her diverse characters. There is intimacy across vast spaces as well as those inevitable human distances and disconnections ... a transnational collection.- Adnan Mahmutovic, author of At the Feet of Mothers and Thinner than a Hair
