Review
'The prizewinners do well, They are bold in their style and in the demands made on the reader; and the subjects are refreshingly undomestic and undomesticated' The Times (for The Catch); 'The Asham Award's second collection of stories proves as varied and entertaining as the first' Aura (for Reshape Whilst Damp)
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In 2001, the Asham Literary Trust organized the third bi-annual competition of short stories by women in honour of Asham House, the house in Sussex where Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived. The competition attracted over nine hundred entries of which the judges selected 12 which are published here together with commissioned stories by Louise Doughty, Patricia Duncker, A.L. Kennedy, Elena Lappin, Kate Pullinger and Carol Shields. The result is a collection of stories from Zimbabwe to San Francisco via Brighton and Jamaica that proves, yet again, that the short story is alive and kicking
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