Edge Hill Prize for Short Story

Eeek! If you ever doubted Gert’s literary judgment, here’s resounding confirmation of your doubts.  Kirsty Gunn has won the 2015 Edge Hill Short Story Prize for Infidelities. No slight intended to Kirsty Gunn; in fact hearty congratulations on this very  significant recognition of her work. But it’s  back to lit crit school for Gert, as the following review of 3 of the shortlisted books,  written before the announcement, proves.

Simply messing around in books on International Yoga Day

 

The cantankerous reviewer in Private Eye said,