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Birdie by Nuala O'Connor

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adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

16 historical and out of time flash fictions.  Never heard of flash fictions before.  This book as about 30 pages of stories and every one of them is like a punch to the heart / mind /soul.  The work is described as “ekphrastic work”, a term I had to look up.   
I came across the author via Nora in the onecityonebook for Dublin a year or two ago and see there is a new book out next year.  I can’t understand why this book has not had the profile of Claire Keenan’s work.  Why is nobody else reading or talking about it?  I came across is in the small book section in Pearse St library last week.  It wasn’t even listed on Storygraph.  I’m missing something, because this book is a amazing.  
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