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    Wish I Was Here
    Wish I Was Here
    Wish I Was Here
    Audiobook5 hours

    Wish I Was Here

    Written by Jackie Kay

    Narrated by Anna Bentinck, Cathleen McCarron, Forbes Masson and Multiple Narrators

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    About this audiobook

    Tales of passion and jealousy, lust and romance from the award-winning author of Red Dust Road

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateMay 1, 2012
    ISBN9781471201318
    Wish I Was Here
    Author

    Jackie Kay

    Jackie Kay est une poète, dramaturge et romancière écossaise. Carnets d’adoption s’est vu décerner le Scottish Arts Council Book Award, le prix First Book of the Year de la Saltire Society et le prix Forward. Le recueil a fait l’objet d’une adaptation audio diffusée sur BBC Radio 3. Depuis 2016, elle occupe le poste de Scots Makar (poète lauréate d'Écosse). Elle est nommée chancelière de l'Université de Salford en 2015.

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    • 5/5
      I didn't enjoy this quite as much as I did Why Don't You Stop Talking, but it's still a really awesome book. I just love the way she writes, her use of language, everything.As with her previous short story collection, most of these are about queer people (mostly lesbians, though the last story is about gay men), though this time they seem to be mostly not about people of color (only two (IIRC) are specified as being PoC and many are specified as being white, with a few that don't indicate one way or the other).I think my favorite stories were Wish I Was Here, My Daughter the Fox, and The Mirrored Twins.
    • 4/5
      This collection of short stories are all about love, and mainly about loosing it. Noticeable that the majority deal with a lesbian relationship, which certainly allows a different take from the "oh, he's left me" style of love. Some of them grabbed me more than others, in some of them there's a sense of what happened next being a mystery - leaving Hamish & Don on a mountain in Scotland has to the be ultimate in cliff-hangers - which feels like there is unfinished business there. The other thing that dawned on me is that most of these tales are about a longer-standing relationship, some of them had been a couple for 10 to 15 years before we hear about them, this isn't the usual young love, this is a more mature, more settled kind of affection that is being turned on its head. Maybe that increases the surprise at the breakup at all. Teh writing is at times start and at others lyrical. I believe she also writes poetry and in the rhythm of some of the sentences, that really comes out, she has a ear for a turn of phrase, that is for sure. It's not always a very hopeful set of stories, in some of them you wonder how the narrator will extricate themselves from their situation. Yet, bizarrely, the one that I found most hopeful was the one about the man whose wife has left him and he's decided to commit suicide. Something in the fact that he wants to do it without it looking like suicide and by doing so starts to pull his life together makes me think that he, of anyone in the book, will make it through d out the other side of the breakup slough of despond.