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You Have 24 Hours to Love Us

Guy Ware

You Have 24 Hours to Love Us
Categories: 21st Century, British, First Collections, Humour
Imprint: Comma Press
Publisher: Comma Press
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  • Identity, in Guy Ware’s confident debut collection, is a mercurial thing. Lawyers paint conflicting pictures of an alleged terrorist; a city trader decides, without warning, to walk out of her life; flirting lovers take role-play to a new, existential, level. Whether living under a totalitarian regime or simply getting through the day in a grindingly predictable metropolis, Ware’s characters struggle with the urge to redefine themselves, to start again, to reboot. Knowing that the course of an entire life can hinge on the smallest decision – turning left or right – they ultimately remind us of the courage, as well as the coping mechanisms, of facing up to responsibilities and simply staying put.

    'A remarkably successful short story writer, the best I’ve read for a long, long time.'
    Time Out
    'A clever, playfully uncanny debut collection that has left me looking forward to more of Guy Ware’s writing.'
    Bookmunch
    'Clever, sustained and engaging fictions that toy with ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events...a daring and refreshing collection.'
    Stuart Evers, The Independent
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