Read by Syrus Lowe, Amy-Leigh Hickman, Constance Straughan

A visceral, entertaining and unforgettable collected of stories from the celebrated author and screenwriter, Bridget O'Connor. After a Dance is the newly compiled collection of short stories from acclaimed writer Bridget O'Connor, with an exclusive new preface from the author's daughter, Constance Straughan. Bridget O'Connor's stories take the form of bold, bizarre, hilarious, and disturbing vignettes from lives lived on the fringes, usually in big city London where O'Connor herself lived for many years. Her often grotesque but always perfectly realised characters have bad, transactional sex and endure apocalyptic hangovers while attempting to establish a grip on their tenuous and treacherous surroundings as well as each other. Intimacy in its truest form as well as its most subversive is present throughout as O'Connor toys with the idea of what it really means to form bonds with the people around us. Violence, emotional and physical, is sudden and often inevitable in O'Connor's world - but in amongst all the bleakness is a wicked and outrageous sense of humour, and there are delights to be found in her taut, twisty prose. Bridget O'Connor was a BAFTA-winning author, playwright and screenwriter. With her partner, Peter Straughan, she wrote the screenplay for the critically acclaimed Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, based on John le Carre's celebrated novel

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