Homesickness by Colin Barrett

Homesickness by Colin BarrettA mesmerisingly powerful book, full of the strangeness and beauty of life' Sally Rooney 'Addictive, stylish and violently funny An outstanding collection' Kevin Barry From the prize winning author of YOUNG SKINS, comes HOMESICKNESS a quietly caustic, startlingly beautiful and wonderfully wry new short story collection. In these eight stories, Barrett takes us back to the barren backwaters of County Mayo, via Toronto, and illuminates the lives of

over the course of one blustery end-of-summer weekend

modernist painter and animator Mary Blair and physicist Chien-Shiung Wu

SLIMEPOWER

who lived with it and loathed it

politics and essential bigotry of his background in late 19th century Ireland

which children will adore

For fans of Dolly Alderton

as an entire nation turned away in revulsion from the British artillery and executions

it's a book I'll return to again and again' Stylist

And her account of the latest act in her remarkable career – quietly pursuing a doctorate

from its medieval origins up to the present day

The collection ends with a series of elegies for the poet's father: in the face of despair