| Swan Landings Contributor(s): Shields, Stephanie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1999818202 ISBN-13: 9781999818203 Publisher: Sheep Shed Press OUR PRICE: $11.88 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Romance - Collections & Anthologies - Fiction | Biographical |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.81 lbs) 286 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This short story collection offers the reader a rich canvas and many and varied slices of different lives. A British female writer of fiction, Stephanie Shields' eye focuses on the human condition. The stories touch on love and romance, childhood and growing up, aging and death. Even the supernatural makes its fleeting appearances. The countryside, the landscape and seascape are tangible and finely observed. Birds are important and carry a metaphoric significance, especially the swan, the emblem of this collection. The scope of the writing is cinematic. The author herself has a range that spans delicacy, derision, wry wisdom, irony and a down to earth and salty appreciation of the physical, faintly reminiscent of Jane Austen, but firmly rooted in present times. There are laugh out loud moments, pathos and, occasionally, bathos, in these pacey stories, much to reflect on, and times to weep. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shields, Stephanie: - "Brought up in the East Midlands, Stephanie Shields has spent her adult life in the north of England. She has combined sheep farming in the Washburn Valley, north of Leeds, with a career in further education. Stephanie's first short story 'The Watershed' appeared in the anthology Dancing with Mr Darcy - stories inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House, selected and introduced by Sarah Waters and published by Honno Press in the UK and Harper Collins in the USA. Her short fiction and poems have appeared in anthologies, magazines and on radio. Her flash fiction and poetry have been shortlisted and longlisted for the Fish International Literature competitions. Her most recent publication was for Prole, Issue 21(December 16) - 'At a Country Fair'. 'Swan Landings' is her first short story collection." |