English Magic

Uschi Gatward

Sept 2021 · Galley Beggar Press

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English Magic moves through fields and parklands, estates and empty beaches.

It lands at Heathrow Airport, takes a taxi to the suburbs, finds emptiness and oppression. It strikes out for the countryside on May Day, to where maypoles whirl and haybales blaze, and where blessings sound like threats.

It's in a flat, drags itself out of half sleep... and there's something tapping behind the gas fire...

In her debut collection of short stories, Uschi Gatward takes us on a tour of an England simultaneously domestic and wild, familiar and strange, real and imagined. Coupling the past and the present, merging the surreal and the mundane, English Magic is a collection full of humour and warmth, subversion and intoxication. It announces the arrival of a shining new talent.

About the author

USCHI GATWARD was born in Mile End, London. She has had stories published by Comma Press, Salt (Best British Short Stories), The Dublin Review, gorse, Southword, and Wasafiri. In 2016, she was shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize. English Magic is her debut collection.

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