From barbers with built-up soles via cross-dressers, illicit affairs, orangutans, crime in the city, homelessness, peeping toms and relationships of all kinds, the leading northern writers in this book cut across genres, and share a love of language and the telling of stories.
Kitty Fitzgerald is the author of four novels and four plays for the BBC and eight theatre plays. She was a finalist (second place) in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award in 2005; received a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2005, a Time to Write Award in 2003, and a C.P. Taylor Playwriting Bursary; and won most original screenplay for the film Dream On at Le Baule Film Festival. Born in Ireland, she lives on Tyndeside.