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    High City Walk

    By Michelle Angharad Pashley

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    About this ebook

    Grief stricken, a sailor blames a sentient sea for his wife’s death … An orphan girl searches Europe for the secret of Alchemy … Illicit lovers try to alter time … And, in a strange land, a bizarre ritual culminates in the Kiss …

    Short listed for the 2017 Saboteur Award for Best Collection, High City Walk side-slips genre as easily as it bends the rules of common reality, offer seventeen stories that interweavie threads of grief and loneliness, yearnings for ages and lives lost or yet to be found, the transformative power of love and its capacity for destruction. Lyrical, surreal, mythical or everyday, the collection spans past, present and futures as possible as they are cataclysmic, yet always it takes you to the heart of its characters’ dreams and nightmares to finds that, often, there is hope in the worst of situations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCinnamon Press
    Release dateMar 10, 2017
    ISBN9781910836859
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    Michelle Angharad Pashley

    Michelle Angharad Pashley completed an MPhil in Endocrinology and a PhD in Genetic Misconceptions. After a career in medical research, she became a lecturer in Biological Sciences at Guildford College. In 2002, she retired from lecturing and moved to North Wales, where she was as a child support worker for 8 years before becoming a full time writer in 2011. Her first novel, Black Sheep Cottage, and its follow-up, The Remains of the Dead, have been widely and enthusiastically reviewed.

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