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If you add an adder to an adder they are prone to have a dance,
they writhe around each other till the strongest gets a chance to
PUSH the other down. Watch out for bossy Beetroot! Be enchanted by
a Bluebell witch's thimble and spot a dive-bombing Lark or a cute
Great-Crested Newt. From Adder to Wren, forty fantastic poems
celebrate forty amazing animals, birds and plants and their
beautiful names - which YOU can help poet Chrissie Gittins save
from EXTINCTION. This is nature close up, exciting - and WILD.
These twenty-two cleverly linked stories, written over two decades,
trace a life from childhood to middle age. Beginning in Lancashire
in the '60s and '70s, they follow a young girl as she becomes aware
of what it means to be a daughter, a sister, a lover and a woman in
a family where the relationships are constantly changing. From a
disappeared clutch of curlew's eggs to the last piece of furniture
left standing in a home, these bleak and funny stories bolster what
is lost into poignant narratives; told with lyricism, economy and
wit, they are observed with the unflinching eye of an incisive
witness. "Most of them carry an insidiously discomforting charge.
She writes about the banalities of daily life, but not for easy
comedy. Observing the small things that are significant to people,
she shows how her characters are essentially alone." NICHOLAS CLEE
The Guardian on Family Connections; "She's like a female Alan
Bennett, such is the power of her observation." ZOE KING on Family
Connections; "It's the polished laconic storytelling - and the way
this combines with the subject matter, which is often profoundly
sad, even painful - but never flat, never gloomy, never depressing.
Chrissie Gittins has a real voice and it comes out with the
apparent effortlessness which is the mark of finished writing."
HELEN DUNMORE on Family Connections; "Chrissie Gittins is a real
writer with a bleak, accurate and often very funny take on the drab
lives most of us lead. Above all she understands the brutal economy
you need for a really successful short story..." NIGEL WILLIAMS on
Family Connections; "By turns incisive and funny. Not unlike Oscar
Wilde, Professor Heger's Daughter is a feast for the mind." ROBERT
PEAKE in Poetry Salzburg Review.
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