‘A deft, satisfying and poignant collection of stories . . . I loved it.’ PANDORA SYKES
‘Huma Qureshi is a writer I know I’ll be reading for years and years and years’ Natasha Lunn, author of Conversations on Love
A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets, misunderstandings and silences that haunt them.
A daughter asks her mother to shut up, only to shut her up for good; an exhausted wife walks away from the husband who doesn’t understand her; on holiday, lovers no longer make sense to each other away from home.
Set across the blossoming English countryside, the stifling Mediterranean, and the bustling cities of London and Lahore, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love illuminates the parts of ourselves we rarely reveal.
*Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize*
*Longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize*
‘These are stories of fierce clarity and tenderness – I loved them’ LUCY CALDWELL, author of Intimacies
‘Qureshi writes with courage’ Ingrid Persaud, author of Love After Love
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Imprint: SCEPTRE
Publication date: 09/06/2022
Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love
by Huma Qureshi
Review by Rosa
An emotional wee short story collection, Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love articulates the impact of silence and biting your tongue in relationships whether they are romantic, platonic, familial or undefinable. Countless themes are conveyed through the experiences of characters from a variety of backgrounds: cultural and generational tensions, diaspora, friendships in all of their forms – intense, fleeting, long-lasting - endings and beginnings, gender, class, infertility, the shedding of your childhood skin, the desire to belong, to yearn for someone, and to discover your true self whether that be within a relationship or outside of one. Although all only short snapshots of complex scenarios, I feel as if everyone can find at least a slice of their life within one of these beautiful stories.
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