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In prose that is as gripping as it is insightful, \u003cem\u003eStill Born\u003c\/em\u003e explores maternal ambivalence with a surgeon’s touch, carefully dissecting the contradictions that make up the lived experiences of women.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205810716850,"sku":"9781913097660","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781913097660_6d2e2c9a-b6ed-40d7-8ec3-b9aaf3cf903f.jpg?v=1786030893"},{"product_id":"9781609806057","title":"Natural Histories","description":"Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce and the impulse not to, and the inexplicable connection that can bind, eerily, two beings together. Each Nettel tale creates, with tightly wound narrative tension, a space wherein her characters feel excruciatingly human, exploring how the wounds we incur in life manifest themselves within us, clandestinely, irrevocably, both unseen and overtly. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a precise writing style that is both subtle and spellbinding, Nettel renders the ordinary unsettling, and the grotesque exquisite. \u003ci\u003eNatural Histories\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the 3rd Ribera del Duero International Award for Short Narratives, an important Spanish literature prize.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304045195637,"sku":"9781609806057","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781609806057_849d962c-d3ad-4c63-b9c2-199b64c2dca1.jpg?v=1786023233"},{"product_id":"9781804271476","title":"The Accidentals","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen an albatross strays too far from its home, or loses its bearings, it becomes an ‘accidental’, an unmoored wanderer. The protagonists of these eight stories each find the ordinary courses of their lives disrupted by an unexpected event and are pushed into unfamiliar terrain: a girl encounters her uncle in hospital, who was cast out of the family for reasons unknown; a menacing force hovers over a fracturing family on a rural holiday; a couple and their children inhabit a stifling world where it is better to be asleep than awake; a man’s desire for a solution to his marital dissatisfaction has unforeseen consequences. 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Each narrative veers towards unknown and dark corridors, and the pleasures of these accounts lie partly in the great surprise of the familiarity together with the strangeness.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312016306549,"sku":"9780995580725","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780995580725_4edc3cf1-9b81-490f-94f6-61de1155dc98.jpg?v=1786015977"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-guadalupe-nettel.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}