Hometown Tales: Midlands

Name: Hometown Tales: Midlands
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Kerry Young
ISBN: 9781409182528

Author: Kerry Young, Carolyn Sanderson

Series: Hometown Tales

Narrator: Pippa Bennett-Warner

Unabridged: 3 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 06/28/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs, Travel, Europe, Great Britain

Synopsis

Original tales by remarkable writers

Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning of home.

In these pages on the Midlands, you'll find two unique tales: a richly-imagined story about a young girl adopted by a couple living in the village of Fleckney by author of the Costa-shortlisted Pau, Kerry Young, and a tale of young love across the ages in Milton Keynes by Carolyn Sanderson.

Read by Pippa Bennet-Warner

(p) Orion Publishing Group 2018

About Kerry Young

Kerry Young was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and moved to England in 1965. She is the author of three novels, all available from Bloomsbury: PAO, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Book Prize; GLORIA, which was longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and nominated for the international IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and SHOW ME A MOUNTAIN. Kerry is a reader for The Literary Consultancy, a tutor for The Arvon Foundation, and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. She is also Honorary Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Nottingham and Honorary Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Leicester.

About Carolyn Sanderson

Carolyn Sanderson has worked in a number of fields, including teaching, training, counselling, academia and the Church of England. She has written articles, reviews and a number of hymns, and lives in Milton Keynes.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Seema

Two stories about life in the Midlands, which I - as a Midlander - enjoyed. Both stories creep up on you to deliver unexpectedly heart-wrenching denouements. I have loved Kerry Young's writing ever since I read Pao but came across this audio book because I was looking for anything narrated by Pippa......more

Goodreads review by Mary

Two long short stories set in the Midlands by different authors. I preferred the one about an Afro-Carribean girl adopted by a couple in a small town. Many of the people, including the children, are cruel but she learns to make the best of it. The other story is about a young woman who feels the pul......more

Goodreads review by Dean

Two wonderful tales full of emotion and real people. However, Milton Keynes is not in the Midlands so not sure that story was in this book......more