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The back yard of Saoirse and Daisy's house can be a perilous place: boys from down the street leave unwelcome 'presents' at the gate, the girls' father comes home late with a swollen jaw, and they have to rush indoors and shut the windows tight when marchers pass, even on the hottest day of the year.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Lucy Caldwell
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 230
- Publisher
- Viking Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670916054
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Northern Irish playwright and novelist. She was the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award and of the 2023 Walter Scott Prize.
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