Deirdre Shanahan: 2 books

The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its seventh year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar...

Eva takes her son Torin away from petty crime and gang violence in London to the safest place she knows: her father's caravan in Ireland. Eva hopes to stay and find the daughter she left behind but Torin, rootless, can't settle there.