Modern Times
Jul 2020 · Hachette UK
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'Jaw-droppingly good' Sinead Gleeson
'Funny, poetic, heart-chilling' Graham Norton
'Terrific' Jenny Offill
'Marvellous' Kevin Barry
'Takes your breath away' Observer
'Unlike any other fiction' Independent
There once was ...
a woman who loved her husband's cock so much that she began taking it to work in her lunchbox.
a man who made films without a camera, which transfixed his estranged daughter.
a couple who administered electric shocks to each other, to be reminded of what love is.
a world where you wake up one day and notice that, one by one, people are turning blue.
'Funny, poetic, heart-chilling' Graham Norton
'Terrific' Jenny Offill
'Marvellous' Kevin Barry
'Takes your breath away' Observer
'Unlike any other fiction' Independent
There once was ...
a woman who loved her husband's cock so much that she began taking it to work in her lunchbox.
a man who made films without a camera, which transfixed his estranged daughter.
a couple who administered electric shocks to each other, to be reminded of what love is.
a world where you wake up one day and notice that, one by one, people are turning blue.
About the author
CATHY SWEENEY is a writer living in Ireland. Her short fiction has been published in the Stinging Fly, the Dublin Review, Egress, Winter Papers, Banshee and the Tangerine, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her debut short story collection, Modern Times, was published in 2020 and her debut novel, Breakdown, in 2024.
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