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Pigeon

Pigeon

by Alys Conran
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/05/2016

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An incongruous ice-cream van lurches up into the Welsh hills through the hail, pursued by a boy and girl who chase it into their own dark make-believe world, and unfurl in their compelling voices a tale which ultimately breaks out of childhood and echoes across the years. Pigeon is the tragic, occasionally hilarious and ultimately intense story of a childhood friendship and how it's torn apart, a story of guilt, silence and the loss of innocence, and a story about the kind of love which may survive it all.
ISBN:
9781910901236
9781910901236
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-05-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Parthian Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
203.2x127x20.32mm
Weight:
0.25kg
Alys Conran

Alys Conran's first novel Pigeon (Parthian, 2016) won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2017, the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award, the Wales Arts Review People's Choice Award, was shortlised for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and longlisted for the Author's Choice First Novel Award.

Her poetry, short stories, creative non-fiction, creative essays, literary translations, and other work is to be found in numerous magazines and anthologies including Stand and the Manchester Review.

Originally from North Wales, she spent several years in Edinburgh and Barcelona before returning to the area to live and write. She speaks Welsh and English as first languages, and also speaks Spanish and Catalan.

She has worked as a youth worker, teacher, and in community arts and is now Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bangor. Her late father, also a writer, was born in Kharagpur, Bengal

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