Appetites

Stories of Love Sex and Death

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Pub Date 28 Oct 2019 | Archive Date 6 Dec 2019

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Description

A solitary woman, her life changed by an afternoon of ‘wanting, wanting, wanting’, becomes obsessed with a writer at his desk by the window below.

A nameless, middle-aged narrator, his sexuality awakened by the manipulative mother of a classmate, looks back to that hot summer in the ‘Garden of Eden’, where young lives were changed and ruined. 
And Lennie-girl’s father, craving the warmth of his birthplace, forsakes his daughter and vulnerable son. 

Three stories from a nineteen-story collection in which themes of love and loss, break up and renewal, pleasures and regrets, weave in and out of the lives of protagonists whose ages range from thirteen to sixty-something. 

A solitary woman, her life changed by an afternoon of ‘wanting, wanting, wanting’, becomes obsessed with a writer at his desk by the window below.

A nameless, middle-aged narrator, his sexuality...


A Note From the Publisher

Previously a successful illustrator and cartoonist, Maggie Ling’s prose has been listed in numerous international short story competitions, including a shortlisting for the Bridport Prize, and published in Unthology1 (Unthank Books, 2010), Something Was There (Virago, 2011), Unthology 5 (Unthank Books, 2014), and online by Seren Books (October 2017) and Fairlight Books (May 2019). She lives in Norwich, a UNESCO city of literature.

Previously a successful illustrator and cartoonist, Maggie Ling’s prose has been listed in numerous international short story competitions, including a shortlisting for the Bridport Prize, and...


Available Editions

EDITION Ebook
ISBN 9781838596859
PRICE US$4.99 (USD)
PAGES 200

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Featured Reviews

A very interesting and unusual collection of short stories about appetite in every sense of the word. Highly recommended.

I received this book as an ARC from the publisher and NetGalley.

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