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|author=Eliza Robertson

|title=Wallflowers

|rating=4

|genre=Short Stories

|summary=Eliza Robertson won the Man Booker Scholarship and Curtis Brown Prize while completing her MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. ''Wallflowers'' is already a bestseller in Robertson's native Canada. There is quite some variety across the seventeen stories. Broadly speaking, though, there are a few themes: moving on from loss, finding love in the midst of gentle madness, and interactions with the natural world, often on the edge of Canada's British Columbia wilderness.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408856794</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Edith Pearlman

|summary=Some of today's top authors have come together to retell classic tales - from fairy stories to Victorian-era fiction. As usual with this kind of anthology, it's a fairly hit-or-miss affair, but the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up the book for.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>

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~~|title=The Science of Herself~~

~~|author=Karen Joy Fowler~~

~~|rating=3~~

~~|genre=Short Stories~~

|summary=I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The most fun when facing a new author, especially a big name one, is to come through the underground, tackling the smaller works, the quirkier output, the less representative sections of her or his oeuvre. And for those who have or haven't read ''The Jane Austen Book Club'', there is plenty of potential for that with the rest of [[The Case of the Imaginary Detective by Karen Joy Fowler|Karen Joy Fowler]], for her output includes almost as many selections of short stories as it does very successful novels, and what's more they carry the science fictional banner. A long time ago there was a teenage me very happy to be reading ''Lord of the Flies'' and writing an essay about how sci-fi it was, and I do relish the mainstream author entering a genre, or the inverse of that. But boy, I normally come away a lot happier than I did here.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1604868252</amazonuk>~~

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