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Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh. She is a poet, novelist and writer of short stories and has enjoyed great acclaim for her work for both adults and children. Her novel Trumpet won the Guardian Fiction Prize and is a modern classic. She has published three collections of stories with Picador, Why Don’t You Stop Talking, Wish I Was Here and Reality, Reality. She teaches at Newcastle University, and lives in Manchester.‘Jackie Kay’s third collection of short stories ranks among the best’ <i>Guardian</i>
‘Hilarious . . . heartbreaking’ <i>Observer</i>
‘Sheer joy . . . The pleasure that Kay takes in observation, in dipping her imagination into the secrets of the secretive and the songs of the unsung, is infectious’ S<i>cotland on Sunday</i>
‘They glow with a quiet radiance, touched as they are by the warmth of their creator’s heart’ <i>Spectator</i>
‘Invigorating and witty . . . An observer whose eye for human frailty and courage is that of a portraitist who wants to show rather than tell’<i> Sunday Herald</i>