Hitting trees with sticks

'My Mother and her Sister' first appeared in The Mail on Sunday Magazine, 1996, and was also broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Morning Story, July, 1996. 'Lucky' was first published in Manchester Stories 2 (City Life, 1999), and The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories, edited by Ra Page (Penguin, 1999). 'The Runaway' first appeared in Matter 4, 2004. 'Conception' first appeared in Woman’s Weekly Fiction Special, No. 47, October, 2006. 'Conception' and 'My Mother and her Sister' were previously collected in Ellipsis 2, (Comma, 2006). 'Ped-o-Matique' was specially commissioned for The New Uncanny edited by Sarah Eyre & Ra Page (Comma, 2009). 'Hitting Trees with Sticks' was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2009, was published in the official anthology (Short Books), and was broadcast on Radio 4 in December 2009; it was also published in the Kenyon Review Fall 2010, vol XXXII, no 4. 'Saved' first appeared in Riptide Vol 5, 2010, and in Epoch Vol 59 i, 2010. 'Morphogenesis' was specially commissioned for Litmus, edited by Ra Page (Comma, 2011), and benefited from the consultation of Dr. Martyn Amos. 'Red Enters the Eye' first appeared in Epoch Vol 60 iii, 2011.