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This is a trio of powerful short stories from novelist and playwright, Catherine Czerkawska.
In the title story, Mags takes her small son to the Scottish fishing village where her grandparents once lived and - briefly - renews an old friendship. Your Own Skipper is a tale of missed opportunities, personal inadequacy and the challenges of parental responsibility.
In Civil Rights, a teenage girl has a dangerous but ultimately illuminating experience in late nineteen sixties Dublin where she is working for the summer. Caught up in a series of dangerous events, she is only protected by her innocence and an unexpected act of kindness.
In Lip Reading, a disillusioned young migrant on his way home to Poland, reflects on his less than happy experiences in present day Scotland.
These are uncompromising and poignant stories, but the characters and their experiences are all too real and recognisable. These are stories about alienation, about people struggling - through no fault of their own - to fit in with their surroundings.
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Catherine Czerkawska
Catherine Czerkawska is a critically acclaimed writer of long and short fiction, non-fiction and plays. Her novels include The Curiosity Cabinet, The Physic Garden, Bird of Passage and The Jewel, about the life of Robert Burns’s wife, Jean Armour. In 2019 Contraband published A Proper Person to be Detained, an intriguing exploration of family history that takes us from 19th-century Ireland to the industrial heartlands of England and Scotland. Following on from this, The Last Lancer is a personal account of loss and survival in Poland and Ukraine, a book with a tragic resonance, given the current situation in that country. Catherine's stage plays include Wormwood, about the Chernobyl disaster, and Quartz, both commissioned by Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre. She has also written more than 100 hours of drama for BBC Radio 4. She spent four years as Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of the West of Scotland and when not writing, collects and deals in the antique textiles that occasionally find their way into her fiction.
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