by Regi Claire, with an introduction by Louise Welsh

A woman revolutionary, a woman in prison, a husband seeking revenge, a child driven to sin - they are all 'fighting it', battling to retain their belief in themselves.  No mere slices of life, the stories in this second collection by award-winning Scottish-Swiss author Regi Claire have the range and depth of whole novels.  They give voice to men and women who seem otherwise condemned to suffer in silence and whose struggles we recognise as our own.  Sometimes with humour, sometimes in despair they cry out, clamouring for our attention.  Claire's prose is edgy and vibrant and, whether set in the ice-cool beauty of the Swiss mountains, the heat of Tenerife, the urban frenzy of Paris, Zurich or Edinburgh, her tales are at once deeply disturbing and almost unbearably compassionate.

Published by Two Ravens Press, June 2009

'Regi Claire is a writer of compassion and determination.  Her stories are filled with the details of pain and physical bewilderment and leavened with tenderness' A L Kennedy

'Sharp, intense an almost frighteningly perceptive ..' Lesley Glaister, Sunday Herald

'What she certainly has is the storyteller's gift' Edwin Morgan