Kirsty Gunn Books
The boy and the sea
By Kirsty Gunn
At the start of a summer's day, Ward is waiting on the beach. His friend, Alex, wants him to come to a party at Alison's where there'll be girls and drinks and possibilities of fun. But Ward is shy...
Read MoreFeatherstone
By Kirsty Gunn
"When Sonny Johanssen looks up from his flower bed, he is sure that he has just seen the impossible. And yet he feels her: his niece, Francie, has come home. He's not the only one who senses her pr...
Read MoreThe keepsake
By Kirsty Gunn
Through a shifting and interwoven narrative, Kirsty Gunn explores the dark world of a young girl who has grown up with a mother dependent on storytelling and the oblivion of addiction to cope with...
Read MoreThis place you return to is home
By Kirsty Gunn
In these stories, mothers escape to remote country villages, making prisoners of their children. A young man is made an indentured servant by his father, his violence atoning for loneliness. A wife...
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