Open Up by Thomas Morris: Review
Joshua Jones delves into the hotly anticipated Open Up from Thomas Morris, and finds stories sandwiched between reality and fantasy.
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Joshua Jones delves into the hotly anticipated Open Up from Thomas Morris, and finds stories sandwiched between reality and fantasy.
Thomas Morris has a knack of writing about ordinary things in an unsettling way and unsettling things in an ordinary way. He described his debut collection of ten stories set in Caerphilly, We Don’t Know What We’re Doing, as ‘realism with a kink’. Open Up, a slimmer second offering of five stories, amps up the
The Open Up author decided that, if he was going to thrive, he needed to stop pretending he was something he’s not
Atkinson has the happy knack of capturing the nature of her characters with arch aplomb.
Distant dads, shy lads and a seahorse are among the solitary figures in these five nuanced stories