You have a friend in 10A

The same chilling brilliance of Daphne du Maurier’s most unsettling short fiction * FINANCIAL TIMES *
It’s a rare writer who can create a world as convincingly over a few pages as in a 600-page novel; Shipstead’s fluency in both forms is testament to the skill she modestly casts as a work in progress * Stephanie Merritt, GUARDIAN *
Shipstead observes people beautifully * THE TIMES *
Has an innate charm of its own. Beautifully realised * DAILY MAIL *
Shipstead’s prose is lovely. Precise, vivid, vital * DAILY EXPRESS *
Reaching across decades and set in a diverse array of locations both domestic and exotic, Shipstead’s latest will find a home on bookshelves beside the works of Andre Dubus, Jane Smiley and Richard Russo * BOOKLIST starred review *
Accomplished. It’s the glimpse of a writer honing her craft that is most satisfying * DAILY MAIL *
For GREAT CIRCLE: So beautiful, so daring, so complete * TAYLOR JENKINS REID *
Distinctive and dazzling * TELEGRAPH *
Shipstead displays luminous, exacting language as she demonstrates her flair for creating distinctive characters * LIBRARY JOURNAL US *

MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels SEATING ARRANGEMENTS - winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and L A Times Book Prize for First Fiction - ASTONISH ME and the Booker-shortlisted GREAT CIRCLE. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Conde Nast Traveller, The Best American Short Stories and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. YOU HAVE A FRIEND IN 10A is her first story collection. Maggie Shipstead grew up in California and lives in Los Angeles, California.

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