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The Weight of a Human Heart
£4.99
Shortlisted: Scottish Book Awards
Shortlisted: Queensland Literary Awards
Shortlisted: New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards
A series of graphs illustrate the disintegration of a marriage, step by excruciating step. A literary brawl – and an affair – play out in the book review section of a national newspaper. A young girl learns her mother’s disturbing secrets through the broken key on a typewriter.
Sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, this collection by the award-winning author of Their Brilliant Careers turns the rules of storytelling on their head.
Ranging in setting from Australia to Africa to China and back again, The Weight of a Human Heart was the first published fiction by this remarkable Scottish writer based in Australia.
‘Daring, intelligent, witty, full of new discoveries and exhilarations’ The Guardian
‘Joyfully original… magnetic… a brilliant collection’ The Independent
‘A book that delights in scuffing the conventions of short fiction… O’Neill brings playfulness into stories for a literate audience’ Sydney Morning Herald
‘Full of verve and wit’ Canberra Times
‘Vital storytelling and literary flourishes distinguish Scottish author O’Neill’s creative story collection. What brings all of the tonal diversity together is his obvious understanding of the cohesiveness of language, its power to transcend and overcome, and the way an economy of precious words in a short story can achieve a novel’s worth of emotion’ Publisher’s Weekly
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