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Open Up

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Pub Date Aug 17 2023 | Archive Date Aug 24 2023


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**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW*

The new collection from a literary star - five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of (dis)connection.

Everything felt familiar and nostalgic. It was the joy and blood-thrill of being understood, of being ready to give himself entirely to another.

From a child attending his first football match, buoyed by secret magic, and a wincingly humane portrait of adolescence, to the perplexity of grief and loss through the eyes of a seahorse, Thomas Morris seeks to find grace, hope and benevolence in the churning tumult of self-discovery.

Philosophically acute and strikingly original, this outstanding suite of stories is bursting with a bracing emotional depth. Open Up cracks the heart as it expands the short story form.

Praise for We Don't Know What We're Doing:

'Heart-hurtingly acute, laugh-out-loud funny, and one of the most satisfying collections I've read for years.'
ALI SMITH, Guardian 'Books of the Year'
'Masterly. . . marvellous grace and wit.' PHILIP HENSHER
'That tonic gift, the sense of truth - the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own'. The tonic comes in large doses in Thomas Morris's debut short-story collection.' Irish Times
'Morris's fresh, direct writing style feels brand new.' Metro
'Radiant' Independent

**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW*

The new collection from a literary star - five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of (dis)connection.

Everything felt familiar and nostalgic. It was the joy...


Advance Praise

Praise for We Don't Know What We're Doing

'Heart-hurtingly acute, laugh-out-loud funny, and one of the most satisfying collections I've read for years.' Ali Smith, Guardian Books of the Year

'Masterly . . . marvellous grace and wit.' Phillip Hensher

'That tonic gift, the sense of truth – the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own. The tonic comes in large doses in Thomas Morris's debut short-story collection.' Irish Times

'Morris's fresh, direct writing style feels brand new.' Metro

'Radiant.' Independent

Praise for We Don't Know What We're Doing

'Heart-hurtingly acute, laugh-out-loud funny, and one of the most satisfying collections I've read for years.' Ali Smith, Guardian Books of the Year

'Masterly...


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EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9780571317042
PRICE £14.99 (GBP)
PAGES 224

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