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Like a boy This visit, Dad is finishing his lunch. He’s been eating it with a knife, which one of the carers tries to change to a fork, but it looks like it’s a ‘stubborn’ day. He is happy…
England Jonjon Belmont had the hint of a moustache, the hint of a personality. He always lay close to the edge of our bed, the copious Snake-Bites we consumed in the Eastbourne pub on the summer solstice had created an…
Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose 2024 – Long List Diana Crawford is so familiar with the route to her childhood home that the car nearly drives itself. Turning left, she chats to her parents’ ghosts. “Mum, are you still giving…
Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose 2024 – Long List Mick drove, his right arm leaning out the window, tanned to the colour of teak below the rolled sleeve of his shirt. Paul lay across the back seat, floppy hair hiding…
Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose 2024 – Long List Nanny Teria was big once. There’s photos of her standing tall beside my mother and a lot wider. When I knew her, though, she was little – folded over her walking…
Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose 2024 – Long List “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my…