Stained Glass Lives
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In Stained Glass Lives, Louise Worthington’s writing fuses poetry and prose, beauty and violence. Sometimes, tender, sometimes harsh, she explores loss, female power and the power of distorted thought, as well as creating stark portraits of family, violence and revenge.
The characters are flawed and visceral, from ghosts, daughters, mothers, wives, to taxi drivers, teachers, a frail widow and a mercenary shop assistant.
‘In this collection of short stories and flash fiction, Louise delights us with her dark tales, which take pleasure in the graphic images they conjure up in the reader, for we have all been there, whether we care to admit it or not.
Praise for this book
From the macabre to the poignant, we are fed a sumptuous banquet of love, death, betrayal, abuse, unfaithfulness, murder, violence, suicide, despair and troubled mental states. Louise’s words wash over the reader in beautiful waves of ebb and flow. She paints such visuals with her flowing sentences of description that they take you right into the heart of each story. Her insight into the flaws of the human condition and the innermost thoughts and feelings , as well as the actions, that human beings are capable of are both authentic and moving.’ Louise Stokes