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Every One Still Here

By Liadan Ní Chuinn

A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine’s bones. Flowers are found, left in bouquets, all over a museum. Teenagers gather to dissect the human body. 

Hailed by Kevin Power in his Irish Times review as ‘a collection of six short stories by a debut writer that immediately asks to be considered among this island’s signal 21st-century literary achievements’, Every One Still Here delivers a consummate blend of the personal and the political. Teeming with compassion and energy, Liadan Ní Chuinn’s work is scrupulous in its attention to detail, epic in scope.

About Liadan Ní Chuinn...

Liadan Ní Chuinn is a young writer from the north of Ireland. Their fiction and non-fiction have been published in various magazines including The Stinging FlyTolka, and GrantaEvery One Still Here was first published by The Stinging Fly in March this year. Granta published a UK edition in July and FSG will publish the book in the US early next year.

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