Book Review: Brevity is the soul of grit in darkly wrought short story collection from Tinker, Tailor screenwriter
Unforgettable assortment of stories from acclaimed writer Bridget O'Connor, who died in 2010, is not afraid to go to dark places
Bridget O’Connor was just 49 when she passed away in 2010, at the peak of her creative powers, having co-written the screenplay for the 2011 film version of John Le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy with her husband Peter Straughan, for which they won two Baftas and were nominated for an Academy Award. A well-regarded playwright for both the stage and BBC radio, O’Connor was best-known as a short story writer, having first come to prominence when one of her tales, Harp, won the 1991 Time Out Short Story Prize. That story is included here, along with 14 others, mostly culled from her two published collections, Here Comes John (1993) and Tell Her You Love Her (1997), which serve to introduce O’Connor to a new generation of readers.
