Stone Children – Renard Press

Bibliographic information:
Imprint: Hay Press
ISBN: 9781804471104
Paperback • 256pp • £10
129 mm x 198 mm
20 September 2024
Thema: FYB, 1DF
Territory: World English

Stone Children

And Other Stories

Clare Colvin

Published by Hay Press, an imprint of Renard Press

Paperback

256pp

ISBN: 9781804471104

£10.00

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In Stone Children Britain’s love – and usage – of the Continent is laid bare. A couple eat their way through France and are overcome by greed; an ashes-scattering goes terribly wrong; a house is haunted by pain and abuse.

Through each powerful tale we follow, mesmerised, moving through time and across continents, as the flaws and greed of humanity are exposed with extraordinary skill and wit.

There’s a patrician quality to these pleasing short stories from historical novelist Colvin… A stately, decorous tour of feelings, decorations and salubrious surroundings.

Eithne Farry, ‘The Best Short Stories Out this Month’, Daily Mail

Highly individual… recreates its period setting with wit and grace.

Independent (in praise of Masque of the Gonzagas)

Elegant writing, excellent research… ripe with the intrigue, passion and danger of the best historical novels.

Sunday Times (in praise of The Mirror Makers)

Clare Colvin

Clare Colvin is a novelist, short-story writer, opera critic and journalist. She is author of three novels, The Mirror Makers, A Fatal Season and Masque of the Gonzagas. As a journalist she has edited an arts diary for the Observer, worked as a theatre critic for the Evening News and the Times, and was literary editor for the Sunday Express. Her short stories have been published in a number of anthologies, and often draw on her travels, including several months in India and Lebanon, where she raced as an amateur jockey. Having spent time living and working around the world, Clare now lives in London.