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Diamond Life: Short Stories - Softcover

Maconochie, Anna

 
9781738459476: Diamond Life: Short Stories
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1738459470 ISBN 13: 9781738459476
Verlag: Heloise Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

A collection of urban short stories about the creative lives of London millennials. Failed aspirations, romantic fiascos, professional rivalries, and much more. This is a book packed with fake-it-until-you-make-it characters.

Nat sets Victor and Cleo up on a blind date, to their mutual disappointment. A married woman has seven other men, or does she? Luckless Vicky lodges with glamorous Lara and suffers a romance with toxic loser Damian. A struggling artist, caught between two romantic trysts, is promised by a street fortune teller that it's all about to change. Graduate Joe moves to London only to find his sought-after internship and social scene do not meet his expectations. Alex is in love with Paul. Paul is only half-in-love with Alex and totally in love with heroin. Candace and Jacob fear their vulnerable friend Jill will kill herself. A married man, split from his mistress, gets a surprise invitation from her for one last hurrah. What he finds in the Soho Hotel is not quite what he anticipated. Two schoolgirl frenemies fall in and out of touch in adult life. One seeks fame, the other to be a real artist. Unspoken passions and jealousies give way to a life-changing transaction.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anna Maconochie was born and raised in London, where she still lives. After a decade in the film industry and the BBC she began writing short stories that touched on these settings as well as her home city. Her first stories appeared in the Erotic Review and then in several other print and online magazines, including the Dublin Review, the London Magazine and the Bitter Oleander. She has also had a story in Desire: 100 of Literature’s Sexiest Stories, compiled by Mariella Frostrup. In 2023 she received a Pushcart Prize nomination for her story Victor & Cleo in the Concho River Review. Her first published short story collection was ONLY THE VISIBLE CAN VANISH, with Cultured Llama Publishing.

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Verlag
Heloise Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1738459470
ISBN 13 
9781738459476
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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