Plankton Collector

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

In this atmospheric novella, the mysterious Plankton Collector visits members of a family torn apart by grief and regret. he comes in different guises. For ten year-old Mary, he is Mr Smith who takes her on a train journey to the seaside. Her mother, Rose, meets him as Stephen, by her son's graveside. Rose's youngest, Bunny, encounters him as the gardener. For husband and father David, meanwhile, the meeting is with a love from his youth. And long-lost Uncle Barnaby takes the children for a week's holiday during which their parents begin a reconciliation. All visitors are manifestations of the Plankton Collector who teaches those he encounters the difference between the discarded weight of unhappy memories and the lightness borne by happiness recalled.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-27
Mått:129 x 198 x 10 mm
Vikt:106 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:84
Förlag:Parthian Books
ISBN:9781917140041

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Cath Barton was born in the English Midlands and now lives in Abergavenny, south Wales. Her short stories have been published in anthologies in Australia, the US and the UK, most recently in Normal Deviation (Wonderbox Publishing) and Nothing Is As It Was (Retreat West books) and in literary magazines The Lonely Crowd and Strix. Cath was Literature Editor of California-based Celtic Family Magazine (2013-2016) and was on the 2018 co-hort of the enhanced mentoring scheme for writers run by Literature Wales.

Recensioner i media

"Painterly... lush dreamy prose creates a vivid landscape, while its lyricism transports the reader. Cleverly creates a universe of new realities." - Cathryn Summerhayes, literary agent at Curtis Brown"Haunts like memory, shimmering in and out of love and loss with unexpected, poignant hope. Richly lyrical, beautifully original."- Helen Sedgwick

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Jeremy Forge, Radhika Borde, Julian Cope, Matt Gibson, Thomas Maccoll, Moomal Ahmed, Kriss Nichol, Anais Jay, Laura Geall, Irma Goderdzishvili, Cath Barton, Alexandra Hademenos, Parker McIntosh, Emily Lomax, Susanna Callaghan, Tom Wolosz, Steve Wade, John Paul Davies, Christine Hayward, Susanna Bellini, Arron Evans, Gayatri Swaminathan, Boris Glikman, Laura Theis