Before the Rain, Flax 006

Mollie Baxter, Thomas Fletcher and Peter Wild prove themselves to be engaging storytellers in stories that are war-torn, sub-marine and forest-ridden, and each unpicks dilemmas we can all relate to: love, fear and loyalty…

This volume is the embodiment of Flax’s ambition to highlight regional voices.

These writers have a compulsion to tell their stores. It is a collection of tensions, fear and, strange though it may sound, wordlessness. There are images that transcend their stories to wedge themselves in your mind and stay there long after you’ve shut the book: trapped birds, canal fish, stick people all inhabit these pages, alongside the fleshy people, of course. Reading of them is a visceral experience, uneasy, yet exciting.

The scope of their energy clearly knows no bounds. Although whatever their subject, these writers dig at the truth behind our motivations, strive to convey our workings as honestly and directly as possible. All three of them lay on the table our need for love, shelter and nourishment, and add another essential to life: imagination.

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