Thunderstruck & Other Stories (Folio Prize Nominee)

These nine stories are filled with longing, guilt and violence. - New York Times

Jewelled and barbed with the beauty and brutality of real life, these are sentences of perfect weight and understanding. There are no fillers here, no stories that disappoint: the nine coalesce into something rare and understatedly breathtaking. Like the missing who haunt these stories, Thunderstruck is unforgettable. - Observer

Wonderful, moving tales. - Financial Times

An electric blend of hilarity and despair. - O, The Oprah Magazine

[A] powerful collection. - Independent on Sunday

McCracken writes in lilting, contained prose, and imbues her narratives with wry humour and the soothing resonance of fairy tales… An unforgettable collection that should be irredeemably sad but, in fact, is strangely life-affirming. - Sunday Times

Praise for Elizabeth McCracken:
‘Extraordinary.’
Alice Sebold

Praise for An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination:
‘A grief memoir that fuses the immediacy readers crave from the genre with all the reflective, consoling depth of fiction.’
Observer

Praise for Niagara Falls All Over Again:
‘A book about love, about the alchemy that attention can perform, about the complexities of giving and receiving. Compassionate, perceptive, generous, this novel shines. It is also as compelling as anything I've read in years. Once I picked it up, I simply could not put it down.’
John Burnside, Scotsman

‘Deserves a standing ovation-as beautiful a portrait of a very peculiar marriage as you'll see in print-seductive-sublime storytelling.’
Independent on Sunday

Praise for The Giant’s House:
‘The most original and enchanting romance I have read in a long time.’
Erica Wagner, The Times

‘Every so often a novel comes along which transcends whimsy with the beauty of its writing. Elizabeth McCracken's small masterpiece is one of these.’
Guardian

‘McCracken’s short stories are like no others. Her distinctive voice, her slightly askew manner of looking at the world, her mix of mordant humour and tenderness, her sense of life’s ironies, and the jolt of electricity at the end of each tale make her work arresting and memorable. In this collection of nine short narratives… McCracken transforms life’s dead ends into transformational visions.’ Publishers Weekly (starred)

‘Extraordinary’ Alice Sebold

The author will be in the UK for publication

We sold over 20,000 copies of The Giant’s House