Spill Simmer Falter Wither

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<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015</b></p><p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE<i>GUARDIAN</i>FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015</b></p><p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2016</b> <b></b> <b></b><b>WINNER OF THE<i>SUNDAY INDEPENDENT</i>NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015</b></p><p><b>WINNER OF THE GEOFFREY FABER MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR FICTION</b> <b></b> <b></b> <i>You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE&TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS&WITHOUT CHILDREN UNDER FOUR.</i></p><p>A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, too old for starting over, too young for giving up, and One Eye, a vicious little bugger, smaller than expected, a good ratter. Both are accustomed to being alone, unloved, outcast but they quickly find in each other a strange companionship of sorts. As spring turns to summer, their relationship grows and intensifies, until a savage act forces them to abandon the precarious life theyd established, and take to the road.</p> <p><i>Spill Simmer Falter Wither</i>is a wholly different kind of love story: a devastating portrait of loneliness, loss and friendship, and of the scars that are more than skin-deep. Written with tremendous empathy and insight, in lyrical language that surprises and delights, this is an extraordinary and heartbreaking debut by a major new talent</p>

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Sara Baume was born in Lancashire and grew up in County Cork, Ireland.<b></b>She studied fine art and creative writing and her fiction and criticism have been published in anthologies, newspapers and journals such as the<i>Irish Times</i>, the<i>Guardian</i>,<i>The Stinging Fly</i>and<i>Granta</i>magazine. She has won the Davy Byrnes Short Story Award, the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, the Rooney Prize for Literature, an Irish Book Award for Best Newcomer and the Kate OBrien Award. Her debut novel,<i>Spill Simmer Falter Wither</i>, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and longlisted for the<i>Guardian</i>First Book Award, the Warwick Prize for Writing and the Desmond Elliott Prize. She has received a Literary Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico.<i>A Line Made by Walking</i>is her second novel. She lives in West Cork.

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