num_pages: 288
description: A collection about mothers and daughters children lost unborn grown up grown apart and the dissonance between lovers. It exposes the silences in families and the parts of ourselves we rarely reveal. A daughter asks her mother to shut up only to shut her up for good; an exhausted wife walks away from the husband who doesnt understand her; on holiday lovers no longer understand each other away from home. The underlying themes of loneliness secrets family and displacement and also the desire to belong to someone to some place; a yearning for love intertwine these stories. The collection includes The Jam Maker which has just been awarded the Harpers Bazaar Short Story Prize 2020.
language: English
title: Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
publisher: Hodder & Stoughton