The Catch: Prize Winning Stories by Women The Asham Award - Softcover

?The prizewinners do well. They are bold in their style and in the demands made on the reader; and the subjects are refreshingly undomestic and undomesticated? The Times

In 1996, the Asham Literary Trust organized a competition of short stories by women in honour of Asham House, the house in Sussex where Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived. The competiton attracted over six hundred entries of which the judges selected thirteen which are published here together with commissioned stories by Kate Atkinson, Rachel Cusk, Louise Doughty, Candia McWilliam and Deborah Moggach. The result is a varied and sensuous collection of stories that successfully blends the work of established writers with new authors.