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Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.

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Walking ahead of him on the heath, his wife turns to look at him over her shoulder, ´Topaz eyes glinting. Scorched face. Vixen.´

In language harvested from nature, Sarah Hall tells a story of metamorphosis, of wildness and fecundity, and of a man reaching for reason, who cannot let go of the creature he loves.

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Hall, Sarah

Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. Twice nominated for the Man Booker prize, she is the award-winning author of five novels and two short story collections - The Beautiful Indifference, which won the Edge Hill and Portico prizes, and Madame Zero, winner of the East Anglian Book Award and the 2018 Edge Hill Readers´ Choice Award, and a Guardian and Sunday Times book of the year 2017. She is currently the only author to be three times shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, winning it in 2013 with ´Mrs Fox´.

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