Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night an enchanting collection of modern fairy tales
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JEN CAMPBELL is an award-winning poet and short story writer. Her debut short story collection, The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night, is published by Two Roads and her children's picture book series about a book-loving dragon called Franklin is published by Thames & Hudson. She is also the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops series and The Bookshop Book. She received an Eric Gregory Award, was awarded the Jane Martin Poetry Prize, and her poetry collection The Girl Aquarium is forthcoming from Bloodaxe.Campbell's entirely fresh reframing of <b>classic fairytales within modern experiences</b>...really got me thinking. The <b>perfect autumnal read</b> to curl up with.
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<b>razor-sharp critique of contemporary issues</b> and <b>deeply moving</b> short stories
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<b>quietly excellent</b>
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<i>The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night </i>is a <b>gem </b>of a book
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A <b>darkly clever, beautifully written and deliciously twisted collection</b> of modern fairy tales
- Sarra Manning, Red
<b>'dark, twisted fairy tales'</b>
- Kirsty Logan, The Herald
<b>Full of wonder</b>: <b>brilliantly imaginative, </b>with <b>dark, unsettling undercurrents</b> ... The characters <b>sparkle with a sense of the surreal</b>, but these outcasts, misfits and loners are <b>filled with hopes and dreams</b>, and are as believable as those in any true-life novel.
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Interwoven with myth and fairy tale, these stories are <b>surprising, delightful, and by turns dangerous and joyful,</b> like walking through a mirror and discovering a world that you both recognise and have never seen before.
- Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,
'Campbell's fairy tales retain a <b>kaleidoscope </b>quality from the first to the last page...a reality coloured by our imagination in which we are as strong as we are vulnerable, as similar as we are different.' <i>Sanja Gligoric</i>
There are so many intriguing characters and situations to be enjoyed in <i>The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night</i>...<b>Jen Campbell is clearly a writer to watch</b>.
- Katy Goodwin-Bates, New Books magazine
<b>Visceral, sinister and yet strangely beguiling</b> ... her stories often explore characters, situations and settings caught in t<b>hat strange area between the known and the unfamiliar, between the normal and the 'monstrous'</b> ... Comparisons could be made to Angela Carter, but Campbell's stories have a quality completely their own; <b>haunting</b> in their imagery and <b>powerful </b>in their brevity.
- Carolyn Percy, Wales Art Review
Interesting and refreshing ... <b>an extremely enlightening read</b>
TN2 Magazine
Funny and poignant and unexpected. <b>A fable for our times.</b>
- Sarah Franklin,
<b>fantasy, magic, fairy tales, with a sprinkling of reality </b>
Irish Times
A story collection which manages to be <b>magical and sinister at the same time</b>
Kirsty Logan