Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh in 1961 and grew up in Glasgow. The Adoption Papers (poetry) won the Saltire and Forward Prize. Other Lovers (poetry) won the Somerset Maugham Award and her first novel Trumpet won the Author's Club First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. Her first novel for children, Strawgirl , a lyrical slice of magical realism, was a huge critical success. She lives in Manchester with her son.
Wish I Was Here is due to be published in paperback in June 2007. This fierce, funny and compassionate collection explores every facet of that most overwhelming and complicated of human emotions: love. With winning directness, Kay captures her characters' greatest joys and greatest vulnerability, exposing the moments of tenderness, of shock, of bravery and stupidity that accompany the search for love, the discovery of love and, most of all, love's loss.
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