Not Sorry

A man tries to bury his wife and marry his young mistress in the same ceremony. Astrologers rejoice when the Government decides to cancel April and May. A new lover purchased online arrives pre-programmed with unappealing habits. And a wife buys her husband an unusual gift – a new heart. Incisive, smart, funny and fearless – Sarah Salway makes every word count. Her very short stories capture a whole world of fantasy and ordinariness in as little as a single paragraph. Written with passion and biting wit, these taut tales are ambitious, often deliciously dark, and always deeply human.

Author Biography

Sarah Salway is the author of three novels, Something Beginning With, Tell Me Everything and Getting the Picture, and three collections of poetry, Let’s Dance, You do not need another self-help book and Digging up Paradise. This short story collection follows her first, Leading the Dance.

Sarah lives in Kent with her family. She is a former Canterbury Laureate (2010-2012) and has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow with the London School of Economics and the University of Kent. She has been awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship, and international fellowships (twice) with the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in the USA. She currently passes on her passion for reading poetry and short stories with a weekly workshop run through the Royal Literary Fund.