Carole Burns 
The Missing Woman and Other Stories 

The stories in this collection circle around women who are either literally missing – a mother in rehab, a daughter never born – or who are missing some metaphorical piece of themselves. A father tries to convince his uncompromising, anorexic daughter to want to live, a single woman lures men to her bed only to abandon them, and marriage is shaken by a search party for a woman who’s disappeared. How does one balance safety with adventure? Dreams with practicality? Grief with joy?

关于作者

Carole Burns is an author and lecturer who lives in Cardiff. Her book of interviews with writers, Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything in Between, was published by Norton in 2008; her first collection of stories, The Missing Woman, was published by Parthian in 2015. She is Head of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton and a co-organiser of XX Women’s Writing Festival.