A Dress for Kathleen Format:Paperback Better than Paradise is an

Better than Paradise is an epic re-imagining of exotic landscapes and ominous histories shot through with wit and anger

] What I like about this anthology is its range

also the Timbuktu-born novelist Omar al-Ansari and the talented young Saudi author Mohammed Hasan Alwan

including one short lyric where floodwater puddles seem to resemble war-torn continents

Adham Smart

A Dress for Kathleen Format:Paperback Better than Paradise is anEvery family has shadow people, the ones who slipped out of the story too soon, leaving a blank space where they should have been. In my fathers family that person was his sister Kathleen. So begins Heather Richardsons astonishing fragmentary celebration of her aunt, Kathleen Hutchinson, whose life was cut tragically short aged just 14. It is the early days of WW2 and Kathleen has just left school to start her first job at a linen mill. But this dark