Must-See
'She leans forward, scrutinising the menu; he sits back, looking at the horizon. Her mind’s not really on food. She’s wondering what they can do today to distract them from pain and worry, to make things better. She pushes her hair back behind her ear, revealing a badly-grazed cheekbone. The guidebook says the monastery’s a must-see...
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Must-See was published in the Sunday Tribune 7 May 2006 and subsequently won the Hennessy Literary Award 2006 for Emerging Fiction and won Katherine the overall Hennessy New Writer of the Year award 2006
“Katherine Duffy's winning story, about a gradual shift in the relationship of two couples on holidays in Greece, is nuanced, truthful, delicate and understated.”
EA Markham
Remembering Summer
'The hut — for us children the words conjured a magical, summertime terrain. A railway carriage set high on iron stilts, in a sloping field. From its windows, we saw hawthorn hedges, a succession of fields, the sea, an unmoving view from an aged, finally-halted train, and yet, peering out, we had distinct, exciting sensations of travel. '
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