GRACE NOTES Gordon Lawrie 

Grace Notes is Gordon Lawrie's first collection of full-length short stories.

Over the last decade or so, Edinburgh writer Gordon has written a handful of novels and copious flash fiction – to many writers around the world, he’s best known as the editor of the online publication Friday Flash Fiction.

Now and again, though, he writes classic-length short stories, and this collection of twenty showcases the varied themes he’s prepared to explore: racism, infidelity, hypocrisy, life and death… and, above all, music. More than a few come with their own piece of music, most of which are original – a pop song, a folk tune, even an advertising jingle.

Several of these stories feature characters from elsewhere, but all are free-standing. There’s nothing the reader needs to do here other than to sit down and relax…

Grace Notes was published in 2023.

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