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    When You Lived Inside the Walls
    When You Lived Inside the Walls
    When You Lived Inside the Walls
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    When You Lived Inside the Walls

    By Krishan Coupland

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    This is the sixth book in the Thumbprint pocket book series and Krishan Coupland's first collection of stories. At once dark and tender, mundane and extraordinary the stories here speak of strange realities where a child takes to living in the walls with the friends who love her, and a young man preserves the body of his lover, who has returned from the dead, in a freezer in his garage. Coupland writes in language elegant yet simple as if he were telling you a story while you shared a pot of tea or a bottle of beer. It's this simplicity that belies a complexity of ideas and a mastery of the short form that is such a pleasure to read and makes this debut collection truly remarkable.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStonewood Press
    Release dateJan 26, 2017
    ISBN9781910413210
    When You Lived Inside the Walls
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    Krishan Coupland

    Krishan Coupland’s stories and poems have been published in Ambit, Aesthetica, Brittle Star, Fractured West and Litro. His story ‘Days Necrotic’ was joint winner of the Manchester Fiction Prize 2011; he has also won the Bare Fiction Prize and been shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize Wasafiri New Writing Prize, and Storgy short story competition. His work has also been highly commended in the Harper’s Bazaar short story competition, selected for the Best of the Net Anthology, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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