Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls
Description
Excitable girls rush out to meet life; what could go wrong? A masterful debut about the terrifying thrills of innocence from a voice of experience.
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Teenagers sneak out to the creek for a wild New Year's Eve party. A sleep-deprived woman who imagines she is pregnant to a Viking faces her scathing sixteen-year-old self. A woman in love wakes up in a van Gogh painting.
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These gem-like stories are about the desire to rush out and meet life; about getting in over your head; about danger, and damage, and what it means to survive -and not always survive -the risk of being young. They chart the borderlands between girls and women, daughters and mothers, freedom and fear.
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Emerging fully-formed and singing songs of both innocence and experience, Anne Casey-Hardy is the rarest of new voices: at the same time reckless and entirely in control; funny and frightening; wise and full-blooded.
Anne Casey-Hardy
Anne Casey-Hardy was born in Fremantle and grew up in Melbourne as the eldest of seven children. She won the 2018 Peter Carey Short Story Award, was shortlisted for the 2019 VU/Overland Short Story Prize and was awarded a 2021 Varuna Residential Fellowship. Her short stories and poetry have been published in‚ Meanjin Quarterly, Island Magazine, Overland Journal, Westerly Magazine‚ and several anthologies.
Anne has previously worked as a research librarian and advocate for families of premature babies, and her work in this area has been published in‚ The Lancet, Journal of Neonatology‚ and‚ Journal of Paediatric and Child Health.
She lives with her husband in Melbourne's west, on Bunurong land.
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Praise for‚ Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls
¢‚¬ËœI find myself haunted by this innocent, menacing, blackly funny and fabulous book. Anne Casey-Hardy's writing hums with a dangerous, coiled energy in sly, ghostly stories of girls and women striking back, lying low, busting out, triumphing even while sinking. Casey-Hardy is a raw, rare talent with an unforgettable voice.'‚ Charlotte Wood, author of‚ The Weekend‚ and‚ The Natural Way of Things
'Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls‚ buzzes with energy. Anne Casey-Hardy is a wonderful fiction writer. Her characters are brave and full of soul. In mapping the lives and the places where stories thrive, Casey-Hardy also touches our hearts. Such a gift.'‚ Tony Birch, author of‚ Dark as Last Night‚ and‚ The White Girl‚
¢‚¬ËœElectric, irreverent, haunting, heart-breaking‚ ¢‚¬€œ‚ one of the best short story collections you'll ever read. An exceptional debut from a hugely talented writer.'‚ Wayne Marshall, author of‚ Shirl
¢‚¬ËœYou'll be transfixed by the misadventures of Casey-Hardy's dangerously innocent heroines.‚ Her fractured fairy tales are like nothing you've come across before: unnerving, brilliant, hilarious, heart-stirring.'‚ Lucinda Holdforth, author of‚ Leading Lines
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