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'Her prose has a cut glass quality. Clear and crisp as Alpine air, it refracts the light at startling angles, illuminates the singular, the striking detail, turns a flashlight on the dark corners of the psyche, and manages not to flinch.' Alison Miller, Scottish Review of Books 'Claire's virtuosity lies in her range. Though she plays her characters out in quite a narrow emotional tonal space - right at that high-pitch, straining end of the scale - the scope of their identities and the settings she puts them in are breathtaking. While so many authors tend to stick to a particular subculture, Claire ... roams the length and breadth of Europe, taking in a French ambassador's wife, a German undertaker, a wealthy couple who live for their flowers and racehorse, a Presbyterian child in Dundee in thrall to her father's Bible; all ages, all classes. It is as if she is saying that wherever you come from, when we are up against a wall and fighting it, we are all similar animals. ... There is nothing ordinary about these tales. They are all extraordinary.' Vicky Allen, Sunday Herald
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Each of the stories in "Fighting It", Regi Claire's second short story collection, illustrates an aspect of the title phrase: they focus on people struggling with their individual lives and destinies. It looks at people fighting love, loss, dependence, pregnancy, anger, resentment, fear - once again illustrating Claire's assured and unusual voice.
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