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In the 1950s, when her family moves to the Scottish island where her grandad runs a whiskey distillery, Lorrie befriends the bashful Sylvie and is drawn into events that leave Lorrie and the small town wondering who Sylvie really is. Original. Angela Readman is a twice-shortlisted winner of the Costa Short Story Award.Her debut story collection Don´t Try This at Home was published by And Other Stories in 2015. It won The Rubery Book Prize and was shortlisted in the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She also writes poetry, and her collection The Book of Tides was published by Nine Arches in 2016. Something Like Breathing is her first novel.

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