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Stewkey Blues

Location(s): Norfolk
Genre(s): Short Stories
Era(s): present day
Stewkey Blues is a collection of new short stories rooted in Norfolk by one of its best-known writers. From Stiffkey’s Stewkey Blues (blue shelled cockles) in the north, to the wilds of Breckland in the south, this collection is as much a celebration of place as it is of lives lived. Some of the characters in Stewkey Blues have lived in Norfolk all their lives. Others are short-term residents or passage migrants. Whether young or old, self-confident, or ground-down, local or blow-in, all of them are reaching uneasy compromises with the world they inhabit and the landscape in which that life takes place.
‘In his solid, grounded, entertaining collection of stories, DJ Taylor draws out the mythical qualities of East Anglia’s terrain, urban or rural or somewhere marginal in between. He expertly locates those moments in ordinary lives when ‘reality seemed to be curling at the edges.’’ – HILARY MANTEL
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