Outside Paradise

by Siân James

There is an unexpected, elusive emotional truth which she has understood, and she has the talent and kindness to lay it bare""-The Sunday Times (U.K.). This collection of eleven stories by the outstanding Welsh writer is a testament to women of all ages. Sometimes bright and uplifting, sometimes dark and moving, Sian James's work celebrates life. Her characters are not impossibly virtuous or improbably depraved. They are real women dealing with whatever life throws at them, whether stranded on a mountaintop or caught shoplifting. Every story is intriguing, intense, and touching. These are primarily female voices, stories told by mothers, daughters, sisters, wives. Her vividly painted characters tell us about their good sex and bad sex, love and hate, friendship and enmity, excitement and boredom, birth and death.

128 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2002

About the author

Siân James was a Welsh novelist who wrote in English.

James attended the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She was a Fellow of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Glamorgan. She was a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. She twice won the Yorkshire Post Prize, and her third novel, A Small Country, has come to be regarded as a classic of Anglo-Welsh literature. In 2006, A Small Country was made into a Welsh-language TV series (Calon Gaeth), which won the 2007 Bafta Cymru award for Best Drama/Drama Serial for Television.

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