Mrs Dallesandro, Dance Move
On her 23rd wedding anniversary, Mrs Dallesandro treats herself to a secret indulgence. Meanwhile Kate is concerned that her teenage daughter鈥檚 friend is a bad influence.
In Dance Move, the new collection of stories from Wendy Erskine, we meet characters who are looking to wrest control of their lives, only to find themselves defined by the moment in their past that marked them. In these stories 鈥� as in real life 鈥� the funny, the tender and the devastating go hand in hand. Full of warmth, the familiar and the strange, they are about what it means to live in today鈥檚 world, how far you can end up from where you came from, and what it means to look back.
The Author
Wendy Erskine lives in Belfast. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published by Repeater, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Faber & Faber, Tangerine Press, No Alibis Press and Rough Trade Books. Sweet Home, her first collection of stories, was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. It was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and won the 2020 Butler Literary Award.
Reader: Ro铆s铆n Gallagher
Author: Wendy Erskine
Abridger: Rowan Routh
Producer: Michael Shannon
Executive Editor: Andy Martin
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- Sat 19 Aug 2023 13:30麻豆社 Radio Ulster & 麻豆社 Radio Foyle