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The good sex award goes to Sarah Hall: Sudden Traveller reviewed

14 December 2019

9:00 AM

14 December 2019

9:00 AM

Sarah Hall should probably stop publishing short stories for a while to give other writers a chance. If she’s not the best short story writer in Britain, then — but why even finish that sentence? Her novels are good, but it’s in the short form that she excels, with strange, unsettling tales that have made her the only author to be shortlisted three times for the BBC National Short Story Award.

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