The Amazingly Astonishing Story'The Amazingly Astonishing Story' is Lucy Gannons memoir of her first seventeen years. The daughter of a soldier, she lived a peripatetic early life but settled in the north west. Here, a young child, she suffered the death of her mother and was cared for by an aunt. Escape beckoned when her father remarried and the family moved south, but Lucy and her two elder brothers soon find out that they have swapped one difficult situation for another. The

William Thirsk-Gaskill’s novella is a gripping and beautifully told tale of innocence and experience

He has published nearly two dozen trade titles of poetry

political poetry

I hear her sweet song

but it's his poetry

he illuminates family in all its complexity – Mary Otis

has been paying quiet attention to his inner consciousness

Precarity does something to us at the level of language

Associate Professor of Creative Writing

The novel follows the author’s much-praised earlier book on Lisbon

his wife Gweno and Freda Aykroyd

in southern Chile