How Much the Heart Can Hold - by Bernardine Evaristo & Carys Bray & D W Wilson & Donal Ryan & Nikesh Shukla & Grace McCleen & Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' </b><br><b>Zelda Fitzgerald</b> <p/>Love is not a singular concept. <p/>In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for family, to Mania, a frenzied, obsessive love. <p/><b>Seven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love. </b> <p/><i>The publication of </i>How Much the Heart Can Hold<i> is heralded by a Sceptre short story competition. The winning story, based on a concept of love, will be published in the paperback edition. </i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>All seven [stories] score an outright win in the battle to make the ethereal real.--<i><b>Country Life</b></i><br><br>Startlingly original stories--<i><b>Sunday Express S Magazine</b></i><br><br>Together they assert that love is more heart-breaking and transforming than the word necessarily conveys.--<i><b>Observer</b></i><br><br>With prose that is occasionally astonishing, these stories muddy the waters of the literature on love in the best possible way.--<i><b>Financial Times</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Bernardine Evaristo</b> is the award-winning author of seven books, including her most recent novel, <i>Mr Loverman</i> (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin-Random House, 2013). <p/><b>Carys Bray</b> is the author of a collection of short stories, <i>Sweet Home</i>, and two novels, <i>A Song for Issy Bradley</i>, which was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards, and <i>The Museum of You</i>. <p/><b>D. W. Wilson</b> is a short story writer, novelist, Canadian citizen by birth and temperament, video game nerd, teacher, and redneck - among other things. He is currently between books, but his previous works are a short story collection, <i>Once You Break a Knuckle</i>, and <i>Ballistics</i>, a novel. <p/><b>Donal Ryan</b> was born in Tipperary in 1976; he's a novelist, short-story writer and Fellow of the University of Limerick. <p/><b>Grace McCleen</b> studied English Literature at Oxford and York Universities. She has written three critically acclaimed novels and reviews fiction for national newspapers. <p/><b>Nikesh Shukla</b> is the author of <i>Coconut Unlimited</i>, <i>Meatspace</i> and <i>The Time Machine</i>, the editor of the collection <i>The Good Immigrant</i> and a sitcom writer. <p/><b>Rowan Hisayo Buchanan</b> is the author of the novel <i>Harmless Like You, </i>and her short work has appeared in, among other places, the <i>Harvard Review</i>, <i>TriQuarterly, </i> and NPR's<i> Selected Shorts. </i></p>
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