The Beach Hut

Sian Hughes won First Prize in the Biscuit Short Story Competition 2008. She has a degree in English Literature and worked in publishing and journalism before taking a course in creative writing at OUDCE. She has been published in literary magazines, won a number of prizes, and been shortlisted for the Asham, Fish and Raymond Carver Awards. She is married, with two daughters, and a two-year-old grandson. The Beach Hut is her debut collection.

Read an extract from The Beach Hut.

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"An acute ear for the way people speak and a keen eye for the way they behave... brings both gifts to bear on a wide variety of characters and situations... tragic to hilarious."

Ann Schlee

"Sian Hughes pulls the reader in quickly to both situation and character. ...small events that speak volumes ... internal journey of the people involved."

Sarah Harrison

"Taut, spare prose - very good writing indeed."

Gavin Pottinger

"Accomplished story-telling. The Darras, for example, is told through the eyes of a child, the style deceptively simple, powerful."

David Gemmell

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