Writing both of imagined characters and as "I", Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw's stories deal with the experiences of loss, disappointment and the attempt to be self-truthful. In the sequence of stories that chart childhood family memory and the break-up of those connections through deaths and the passage of time, there is a fine balance between recording the feelings of desolation and the pleasures of reconstructing the joys of the past through art and memory. There is, too, in the collection as a whole, a richly consoling passage towards a sense of continuance and human resilience,

About the Author
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw was born in Trinidad and is Professor of French Literature and Creative Writing at the University of the West Indies. Her first collection of short stories, Four Taxis Facing North, was published in 2007 and translated into Italian and French. Her first novel, Mrs. B was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2014. Mrs B, was shortlisted for the "Best Book Fiction" in The Guyana Prize for Literature Award for 2014. Walcott-Hackshaw presently lives in the Santa Cruz Valley with her family; she has recently completed another collection of short stories and is working on a book of essays on trauma in Caribbean fiction.


Book Information
ISBN 9781845234676
Author Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Publisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd