Winner of the BBC national short story award
Winner of an O. Henry prize for short fiction

M -- The woman the book read -- The grotesques -- Who pays? -- Orton -- Sudden traveller -- Live that you may live

The seven stories of Sudden Traveller immerse us anew in one of the most distinctive literary imaginations. In Turkish forests or rain-drenched Cumbrian villages, characters walk, drive, dream and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with their journey through life and death. A woman fitted with life-changing technology returns to the site of her strongest memories; a man repatriated in the near East hears the name of an old love called and must unpack history's suitcase; and from the new-world waves of female anger and resistance, a mythical creature evolves.

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