From Far Around They Saw Us Burn

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From Far Around They Saw Us Burn is the eagerly awaited first short story collection from Alice Jolly, one of the most exciting and accomplished voices in British fiction today. The extraordinary range of work gathered here is united by a fascination with how everyday interactions can transform our lives in unpredictable ways. These are stories of lonely people, outcasts and misfits, and the ghosts that inhabit our intimate spaces. The result is a compelling, arresting and, at times, devastating collection ¿ not least in the title story, which was inspired by the tragic true events of the 1943 Cavan orphanage fire. Written with an exemplary eye for detail and an intimate understanding of the complexities of human nature, Jolly's collection builds up towards the ultimate question: what is revealed of us when we peel away the surfaces, and is it enough?

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Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. Her memoir Dead Babies and Seaside Towns won the PEN Ackerley Prize 2016. She also won the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Literature in 2014 for one of her short stories, 'Ray the Rottweiler'. She has published seven novels, What the Eye Doesn't See, If Only You Knew, Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile, A Saint in Swindon, From Far Around They Saw Us Burn, The Matchbox Girl, and Between the Regions of Kindness.  She has also written for The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday and The Independent, and broadcast for Radio 4.

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