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Hold Your Fire, Paperback / softback Book

Hold Your Fire Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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From award-winning Australian author Chloe Wilson comes Hold Your Fire, a debut short story collection that will haunt you long after you turn the page. A steely mother doubts her husband’s guts and her son's capability, until a playground incident dramatically escalates.

A young couple move into a house in which there’s been a recent murder, and fall under the spell of their peculiar, commanding neighbours.

Two sisters are determined to detoxify themselves into perfection.

A diver pushes herself and those around her to dangerous heights.

Interspersed with these stories are lightning strikes of flash fiction: we glimpse a leopard in the apartment next door; plants grown out of a strange and miraculous soil; the spirit of a girl who’s been thrown down a well. Needle-sharp, effortlessly surprising and beautifully controlled, Hold Your Fire is a debut collection that introduces a fierce new talent.

At each turn, Chloe Wilson offers a unique insight, a tear in the veil of our moral certainties.

Her stories strip away the varnish of our decency to reveal the raw, fascinating truth beneath.

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