Punchy, acerbic, sharp-witted and above-all, acutely observed,Born Free tells the story of an ordinary family who are all trying to escape from something - and each other. · Born Free – Laura Hird I’ve read a lot of very good novels this year but one of the absolute very best is Born Free by Laura Hird. Published in , and shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, Hird’s novel is a mesmerizing portrait of a family in meltdown. · Born Free. by. Laura Hird. · Rating details · ratings · 12 reviews. Punchy, acerbic, sharp-witted, and above-all, acutely observed, this novel tells the story of an ordinary family who are all trying to escape from something—and each other. The interactions between Jake, Joni, Angie, and Vic reveal a hellish cocktail of adolescent ad mid-life crises, the savagery of sibling rivalry, the waking /5.
Laura Hird is the award-winning author of the collections Nail and Other Stories (Canongate, ) and Hope and Other Urban Tales (Canongate, ).Her novel Born Free (Canongate, ) was nominated for the Whitbread and Orange www.doorway.ru short stories have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies internationally and her work has been translated into a number of European languages. Born Free confirms Laura Hird as one of Scotland's most talented writers. This bleak tale of urban dismay, set in the badlands of Edinburgh, is a work of considerable force and maturity - Hird organises her material with confidence and style - The novel's final 50 pages are a memorable descent into the dark mires of the human spirit, yet the. Born Free by Laura Hird pp, Canongate, £ Edinburgh writer Laura Hird's first novel is one of the best portrayals of alcoholism I've read. Born Free recounts a cathartically hideous month.
Born Free – Laura Hird I’ve read a lot of very good novels this year but one of the absolute very best is Born Free by Laura Hird. Published in , and shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, Hird’s novel is a mesmerizing portrait of a family in meltdown. Biography. Laura Hird was born in She studied Contemporary Writing at Middlesex Polytechnic. In she was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary to allow her to write full-time. She is the author of Nail and Other Stories () and Born Free (), a novel set in Edinburgh, where she lives. Laura Hird 's Born Free is a masterpiece of contemporary urban fiction. It is also a quintessentially Scottish book: funny but dark, malevolent but life affirming, poignant but endearingly.
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