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Book Synopsis________________''Assured and ambitious'' - Guardian''A young writer who succeeds in imagining the world afresh'' - Independent''Confirms her as a significant new talent sharp, illuminating'' - Independent on Sunday________________From the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize comes a delicate and startling collection about the adventure within the ordinary and the magic within everyday lifeA small boy and his grandmother set sail for China in the mud of her back yard; a supermarket car park becomes a graveyard of strewn blueberries; migratory birds fly over a marshland ringing with the sound of wooden spoons on kitchen pots; and the breaking of a silence between two roommates leads to disquieting revelations.Eliza Robertson's delicate and startling stories tell of the adventure of the ordinary and the magic within the everyday. Here there are swindlers and innocents, unlikely heroes and gritty survivors; they teach
Trade ReviewConfirms her as a significant new talent … The ordinary and everyday become imbued with a strange significance, albeit with a feather-light touch; Robertson’s prose is never weighed down, even as it imparts a sense of uneasiness, anticipation … Robertson lets images vibrate with possibilities. Almost every story, individually, is sharp, illuminating *
Independent on Sunday *
The stories in Eliza Robertson’s first collection are filled with lush flora and fauna, both real and figurative … Assured and ambitious *
Guardian *
Her stories display a startlingly original way of looking at the world, finding magic and mystery in ordinary life … An exciting new voice in short fiction *
The Lady *
Robertson is often thus adventurous when it comes to her structures … It’s the richness of her prose that draws one in *
Independent *
Robertson’s prose can stand alongside any writer I think to name … her style and her stories are uniquely her own, at once observant and playful, sometimes wise, sometimes ironic, always lyrical and always haunting *
D. W. Wilson, author of Ballistics *
Captivating … Amid the catastrophe, there is a delicate beauty in the details Robertson selects *
Scotland on Sunday *
An unsettling debut collection of short stories *
Mail on Sunday *
Wallflowers is perfect for dipping in and out of, like a bag of pick ‘n’ mix; the stories have varied settings and the narrators are all snappingly distinct. And like pick ‘n’ mix, it’s difficult to stop after just one * Metro *
A young writer who succeeds in imagining the world afresh * Independent *
