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 Nail and other stories - Laura Hird
 Nail and other stories - Laura Hird ... a British soldier loses the plot.Newest Review: ... Pigeon-holed with the likes of Irvine Welsh (Ecstasy, Glue), Hird's writing is distinctive. Echoes of Welsh are there ... more ... but there's no mistaking the two authors. Hird brings in a sense of tenderness mixed with caustic dialogue that Welsh simply doesn't have. Reading Hird is like a steaming knife cutting through ice-cream: straight to the centre, to the crux, leaving nothing hidden. She's not afraid to deal with taboo subjects either and avoids euphemisms, instead, uses a sledgehammer wrapped in cotton wool to get to the heart of things. No nonsense, no prevarication, just an honest here-it-is-do-with-it-what-you-will approach...more |
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Nail and other stories - Laura Hird: "You've been Nailed" (571 words)
by Trevor15 - written on 05/06/01 (Very useful, 184 readings)
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"Christ, what's she doing there? Why's she no at work?" I suppose I became hooked on Laura Hird as soon as I read those words a few months ago in her debut novel. Still a relatively new author, Hird comes across as the fiery Scot, complete with passion, and a take- no-hostage bolshiness to her material. In this collection of short stories, printed before her first acclaimed novel, 'Born Free', Hird deals with subject matter as diverse as paedophilia, necrophilia and daytime spooks. She doesn't bother with graphic details or waste time on characterisation, that's left for the reader. What she does do is smashes into a ...
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