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THIS TASTE FOR SILENCE

Amanda O'Callaghan

The balance of power in a marriage shifts, with shocking consequences. An elderly woman recounts a chilling childhood memory on the family farm. A taxi driver with a missing wife reveals unexpected skills. An inherited painting brings an eerily troubling legacy.
Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda O'Callaghan's stories work at the edges of the sayable, through secrets, erasures and glimpsed moments of disclosure. They shimmer with unspoken histories and characters who have a 'taste for silence'.

Amanda O'Callaghan is a Brisbane-based author whose short stories and flash fiction have been published and won awards in Australia, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Her work has been awarded and shortlisted in the Bath Flash Fiction Award, Flash 500, Carmel Bird Award, Aeon Award, Bristol Short Story Prize and Fish Short Story Prize. A former advertising executive, Amanda holds English degrees from King's College London, and a PhD from the University of Queensland. In 2016 she was a recipient of a Queensland Writers Fellowship. This Taste for Silence is her debut collection.
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Published 2019-06-01 by UQP University of Queensland Press - St Lucia (AUS)

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Shortlisted for the 2019 Readings Prize for Fiction

Longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2020 A short list will be announced by September 2020, with the winner of the £10,000 prize announced in November.

Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda O'Callaghan's stories work at the edges of the sayable, through secrets, erasures and glimpsed moments of disclosure. They shimmer with unspoken histories and characters who have a 'taste for silence'. Our reviewer Ellen says, 'Whether it's a dark secret coming out over dinner, or an oil painting with a sinister magic power, O'Callaghan maintains a subtle, compelling sense of intrigue that makes each story highly readable'.

Amanda O'Callaghan's stories express secret lives and private injuries, hidden victories and losses ... Through the slow pull of their undertow and their sudden tripwires, these nuanced, riveting stories limn the shadows, revealing what lurks and lurches in the unspoken.