DANCE MOVE PB MME – WENDY ERSKINE

One of the greats – Lucy Caldwell, author of Intimacies Comic brilliance – Sinead Gleeson, author of Constellations Ingenious – The Irish Times Daring, funny, heartbreaking – Observer Following the prize-winning Sweet Home, Wendy Erskine s Belfast is once again illuminated. Meet Drew Lord Haig, called on to sing an obscure hit from his youth at a paramilitary event. Meet Max as he recalls an eventful journey to a Christian film festival. And Mrs Dallesandro who dreams of being a teenager again as she sits in a tanning salon on her wedding anniversary. In these stories, Erskine s characters wishes and hopes often fall short of their grasp. Brilliantly drawn, Dance Move is about the hugeness of life as seen through glimpses of the everyday. A masterpiece – David Keenan, author of Monument Maker Wendy Erskine s debut, Sweet Home, was pitch perfect . . . Dance Move is equally brilliant – The Daily Mail Erskine s stories open slight, but they contain more than it seems possible for short stories to contain – Keith Ridgway, author of Hawthorn Child She isn’t just one of the leading writers of short fiction at work today but one of the leading writers, period. – Matt Rowland Hill, author of Original Sins As Read on BBC Radio 4 Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year The Irish Times Books of the Year 2022