Wallflowers : Bloomsbury : 9781408856826 : 1408856824 : 11 Feb 2016 : ________________ 'Assured and ambitious' - Guardian 'A young writer who succeeds in imagining the world afresh' - Independent 'Confirms her as a significant new talent ... sharp, illuminating' - Independent on Sunday ________________ From the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize comes a delicate and startling collection about the adventure within the ordinary and the magic within everyday life A small boy and his grandmother set sail for China in the mud of her back yard; a supermarket car park becomes a graveyard of strewn blueberries; migratory birds fly over a marshland ringing with the sound of wooden spoons on kitchen pots; and the breaking of a silence between two roommates leads to disquieting revelations. Eliza Robertson's delicate and startling stories tell of the adventure of the ordinary and the magic within the everyday. Here there are swindlers and innocents, unlikely heroes and gritty surv