Synopsis
'These are some of the wildest, arresting, just plain brilliant short stories I've read in a long time.' - Roddy Doyle, author of The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
After a Dance is a collection of short stories from acclaimed writer Bridget O'Connor, with an exclusive preface from the author's daughter, Constance Straughan.
Bridget O'Connor was one of the great short story writers of her generation. She had a voice that was viscerally funny and an eye for both the glaring reality and the absurdity of the everyday.
In After A Dance, we meet a selection of O'Connor's most memorable characters often living on the margin of their own lives: from the anonymous thief set on an unusual prize to the hungover best man clinging to what he's lost, to the unrepentant gold-digger who always comes out on top.
From unravelling narcissists to melancholy romantics all human life is here - at its best and at its delightful worst.
'Think Irvine Welsh meets Edna O’Brien . . . pure, delicious naughty fun' – The Times
Details
13 February 2025
9781035024865Reviews
To call [these stories] characterful is to undersell these Technicolor prose screams, these screeching narrative sprints, this filthy feast of stories. Think Irvine Welsh meets Edna O’Brien . . . pure, delicious naughty fun.The Times
A fabulous storyteller and a great writer, we all need to keep hearing Bridget’s voiceIrvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting
These are some of the wildest, arresting, just plain brilliant short stories I've read in a long time.Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
A storytelling genius before her timeThe Irish Times
