Affair of the Heart, An

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Casgliad o storïau byrion sy'n cynnig dirnadaeth o'r natur ddynol ac sydd yn eu tro yn rymus realistig ac yn awgrymog ymholgar.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

A collection of short stories which offers insights into human nature which are in turn punchily realistic and suggestively questioning.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Clare Morgan is a fiction writer and literary critic who lives in Gwynedd and Oxford. Her novel A Book for All and None was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and her short story collection, An Affair of the Heart, by Seren. Her stories have been widely anthologized, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her book What Poetry Brings to Business was published by University of Michigan Press and her recent writing on the subject has featured in the Wall Street Journal, FastCompany, and Humanizing Business: What Humanities can say to Business. She is founder and director of Oxford University’s creative writing degree programme, and a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Far from the romantic collection the title suggests, Clare Morgan's book of short stories, An Affair of the Heart , is an often uncomfortable look at love and desire in their many forms. No living happily ever after here. These stories mix the wonderfully everyday - a father pulling on a potentially ill-fitting sock watched by his daughter - with the unbearable - a furtively glimpsed view of domestic violence. It would seem that Morgan has little time for flowers and chocolates, telling us that relationships have much baser roots and little to do with the man from Milk Tray arriving to make everything all right with a sweet gift. These stories leave a far bitterer taste, but nonetheless they are a long way from being dissatisfying. Brief snapshots into the lives of their characters, they can leave the reader hungry for more, but that is often the beauty of a well-crafted short story. These are savoury tid-bits, for a palette used to strong flavours. Morgan is a graduate of Malcolm Bradbury's groundbreaking creative writing course at the University of East Anglia and now a teacher of creative writing herself at Oxford University. She is clearly a writer who has honed her art, comfortable with using the short story as a way to explore some of life's more complex themes. Read her collection to have notions of love, desire and relationships challenged, not to enjoy a cosy evening on the sofa with a box of chocolates.