Wish I Was Here

Wish I Was Here

Main Market Ed.

Paperback (18 Apr 2007)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This fierce, funny and compassionate collection explores every facet of that most overwhelming and complicated of human emotions: love. With winning directness, Jackie Kay captures her characters' greatest joy and greatest vulnerability, exposing the moments of tenderness, of shock, of bravery and of stupidity that accompany the search for love, the discovery of love and, most of all, love's loss.

'Jackie Kay's characters sing from the page' Daily Telegraph

'So immediately engaging that it reads as though she is speaking to you at a bus stop' Irish Times

'Jackie Kay's new book reveals her gift for capturing a voice . . . at the heart of it is a faith in stories themselves: a belief that the most desolate history can be lent coherence if you tell it right' Times Literary Supplement

'Kay's humour and optimism are transcendent' Sunday Herald

About the Publisher

Picador

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9780330373326
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
Edition: Main Market Ed.
DEWEY: 823.914
DEWEY edition: 22
Number of pages: 197
Weight: 144g
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 17mm