The Redemption of Galen Pike

Winner of the 2015 International Frank O'Connor Short Story Award

Winner of the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize

Shortlisted for the 2015 Wales Book of the Year: Fiction

Shortlisted for the 2015 Edge Hill Short Story Prize

The Globe 100: The Best International Fiction of 2017

In a remote Australian settlement a young wife with an untellable secret reluctantly invites her neighbour into her home. A Quaker spinster offers companionship to a condemned man in a Colorado jail. In the ice and snows of Siberia an office employee from Birmingham witnesses a scene that will change her life. At a jubilee celebration in a northern English town a middle-aged alderman opens his heart to Queen Victoria. A teenage daughter leaves home in search of adventure. High in the Cumbrian fells a woman seeks help from her father's enemy.

Spare, precise, charged with a prickly wit, the stories in Carys Davies's sparkling second collection remind us how little we know of the lives of others.

The Quiet

On Commercial Hill

Jubilee

The Travellers

Myth

Bonnet

First Journeyman

Precious

The Taking of Bunny Clay

Miracle at Hawk's Bay

In the Cabin in the Woods

The Coat

The Redemption of Galen Pike

Wicked Fairy

Creed

Nothing Like My Nightmare

Sibyl

Notes & Acknowledgements

Note on 'Bonnet'

This book is so wonderful! It’s fantastic.



Extraordinarily powerful



This story of brutal murder and rough justice in the American Wild West carried a real punch. As if Mark Twain and Annie Proulx had sat down at a desk together. But an original voice too. I shall be looking out for more.



Confirms beyond doubt her position among the finest British exponents of a particularly challenging form.



This delicate, magical collection won the Frank O’Connor Award for Short Stories and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and it’s easy to see why. They are precise but full of beautifully observed details that fill compact vignettes with incident and emotion.



Karen E Bender, Carys Davies, Tony Earley, Kirsty Gunn and Alejandro Zambra on shortlist for world’s richest short story prize … Jennifer Hamilton-Emery of Salt Publishing said: “We were completely bowled over when we heard the news that Carys Davies' book, The Redemption of Galen Pike, had been shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor prize. It is, without doubt, the world's most prestigious prize for short stories and to have a book placed up there with the best collections internationally is something we've dreamt of for many years. We are delighted for Carys, it is a fantastic achievement, and delighted too that her book has received such recognition.”



Outstanding...perfectly distilled, intense...exquisite. weniger anzeigen expand_less