Every One Still Here

A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine’s bones. Flowers are found, left in bouquets, all over a museum. Teenagers gather to dissect the human body.

Teeming with compassion and thrumming with energy, the stories in Every One Still Here are scrupulous in their attention to detail, epic in their scope. In this bravura first collection, Liadan Ní Chuinn delivers a consummate blend of the personal and the political.

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“It’s a long time since I’ve read a short story collection where I’ve felt such an aching tenderness for the people within its pages, and at times an anger on their behalf. How brilliant it is that Liadan Ní Chuinn can render their lives in such complex, compelling ways.”
– Wendy Erskine

“An extraordinary book by an extraordinary author who refuses to look the other way. Ní Chuinn’s incantatory sentences quiver like seismographs, registering the quakes and ruptures that can crack a life in two.”
—Thomas Morris

“A phenomenal collection – these stories have a poise, a precision, an anger, a melancholy, a way of skewering things, that is entirely Ní Chuinn’s own. A formidable debut by an astonishing new voice.”
—Lucy Caldwell