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Book SynopsisTwo schoolgirls in Bolton take acid just before their English class. A film journalist shares tea and a Kitkat with Marcel Proust, more or less, during a long train journey. An afterparty turns into a crime scene. Colleagues, maybe in love, have lunch and don’t quite talk about their relationship. A woman flees to New Orleans and finds unexpected treasures there.
In her electric debut, Anna Wood skips through the decades of a woman’s life, meeting friends, lovers, shapeshifters and doppelgängers along the way. Delights and regrets pile up, time becomes non-linear, characters stumble and shimmy through moments of rupture, horror and joy.
Written with warmth, wit and swagger, these stories glide from acutely observed comic dialogue to giddy surrealism and quiet heartbreak, and always there is music – pop songs as tiny portals into another world. Yes Yes More More is packed with friendship, memory, pleasure and love.
Trade ReviewThoughts, connected, on Mayday
https://www.thesocial.com/thoughts-connected-on-mayday-by-anna-wood/
-- Anna Wood
Bumper Christmas Issue
Featured in ‘New Year’s Read-olutions: What we’re looking forward to in 2021’
* The Indie Insider Newsletter *
‘This!! Book!! It makes me ache. I ache for nights out and hangovers and weddings and holidays, I ache for pubs and New Orleans and swimming in the pond.’
https://twitter.com/alicemjslater/status/1348756457932660739
-- Alice Slater * Twitter *
‘An ode to being alive & the sometimes painful beauty of the world, immerses you in a stream of brilliant shining moments, carries you effortlessly on its flow. I’m in awe.’
https://twitter.com/Catrionaward/status/1349328073213308928
-- Catriona Ward * Twitter *
‘The writing is sharp and funny and the dialogue is relatable and genuine. I just couldn’t stop reading and ended up finishing the last story in a stone cold bath! I can’t recommend this collection enough.’
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKG4_YZgRb5/
-- @bookishchat * Instagram *
‘Amazing and brilliant’
https://twitter.com/TedKessler1/status/1352577170967822337/photo/1
-- Ted Kessler * Twitter *
‘Really really brilliant’, ‘filled with vitality’, ‘we love it’
Stay Indoors and Read: Episode 4
https://edmcdonaldwriting.com/stay-indoors-and-read/
-- Ed Mcdonald and Catriona Ward * Stay Indoors and Read (vlog) *
Rough Trade Book Club with Leone Ross and Anna Wood
https://www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/rough-trade-book-club-04052021/
* Soho Radio *
Review: Yes Yes More More by Anna Wood (2021)
‘The writing is dazzling – so sharp and fresh and vivid – every sentence zings with truth.’
https://elspells.home.blog/2021/05/06/review-yes-yes-more-more-by-anna-wood-2021/
* Elspells *
Review: Yes Yes More More
‘Days of glory, joy and happiness is a fair description of most of Yes Yes More More.’
https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/102954-2/
-- Alex Diggins * 3AM Magazine *
Review: Yes Yes More More by Anna Wood
‘This is a book about what it takes to be alive, a field guide to living life as well as we possibly can, while we can.’
https://lunate.co.uk/reviews/yes-yes-more-more-by-anna-wood
-- Gary Kaill * Lunate *
Anna Wood’s Yes Yes More More: Stories of Pleasure and Friendship
‘Published by The Indigo Press, Wood’s debut is a comical, heart-warming and introspective example of masterful short fiction’
https://nrthlass.com/2021/05/31/anna-woods-yes-yes-more-more-stories-of-pleasure-and-friendship/
-- Beth Barker * NRTH LASS *
10 reasons to love Yes Yes More More
https://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2021/06/10-reasons-to-love-yes-yes-more-more/
-- Wndy erskine * Caught By The River *
Review | Yes Yes More More by Anna Wood
‘After being deprived of these things for so long, many of us are realising just how precious they are as we creep back to normality. Yes Yes More More, already a trove of joy and feeling, therefore comes to us at a time when we are even more capable of appreciating it.’
https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/review-yes-yes-more-more-by-anna-wood/
-- Alys Key * The London Magazine *
The best books of 2021 so far: Novels, memoirs, short stories and more
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-best-books-of-2021-so-far-novels-memoirs-short-stories-and-more-1.4596346
-- Wendy Erskine * The Irish Times *
The good life: Delight, indulgence and grit in Anna Wood’s Yes Yes More More
‘Fifteen immensely nourishing stories that shimmer with thrills, fun and pleasure, each one a chomping bite of everything good about life.’
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/yes-yes-more-more-anna-wood-book-review-alice-ash/
-- Alice Ash * The Times Literary Supplement *
