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• Winner of Arnold Bennett Prize 2020

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'It's Gone Dark Over Bill's Mother's is worth buying for the first story alone, which is totally fantastic. Heartbreaking is too mundane a way of describing it.' Robin Ince; 'If you enjoy funny, tough, sharp, surprising and unsentimental writing about family life, buy this book.' Chris Power, author of Mothers; 'Her stories are at times the laugh-out-loud funny of Alan Bennett and at others, the achingly sad of the great, David Constantine.'-Paul McVeigh; 'It knew exactly how to play with and exploit the potential of its naive narrative voice-what to say but, far more importantly, what not to say-quite apart from its wit, and the undercurrent of sadness it explored without ever being sentimental.' William Boyd on 'Broken Crockery', 'Collecting the short stories of award-winning author Lisa Blower, It's Gone Dark is a quietly brilliant collection united by its roots in the North, and often by the working-class matriarchs that populate it. With a laser-focus on ordinary lives written from the inside , often overlooked, but no less compelling for it, It's Gone Dark is well worth a read if you're looking for a fresh voice in fiction.' Turnaround 2019 Fiction Staff Picks; ''There are so many contemporary novelists to watch out for. Right now, we should certainly be reading... Lisa Blowers' story collection It's Gone Dark Over Bill's Mother's.... Solid proof that these are good times indeed to be reading writing about working-class life.' Professor Simon Koevesi, Professor of English Literature at Oxford Brookes University.; 'Emotionally draining, hard-hitting and brilliantly written. I came away from this collection with the sense that here is a writer who could take her talent in any direction she wishes.' The Quietus

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Lisa Blower won The Guardian's National Short Story competition in 2009, was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2013, has been Highly Commended and longlisted for the Bridport Prize for three consecutive years, and was one of just four UK authors longlisted for The Sunday Times Short Story Award 2018. Her debut novel Sitting Ducks (Fair Acre Press) was shortlisted for the inaugural Arnold Bennett Prize 2017 and longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker 2016. Blower is a creative writing lecturer at Bangor University, Wales where she studied for her PhD.

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