"Everything is filled with stories, an old woman neighbour told me once, the same old woman neighbour, as it happens, who taught me to sew. This is when I was extremely little, too little to understand that most things don’t mean exactly what they seem, that meaning is a flighty thing. Because of what she said, I split the seam down the back of my favourite teddy, Mr Buddy, with a serrated kitchen knife. I was searching for stories, commanding words to tumble out and configure into horizontal lines like the ones inside my story books. Instead I found Mr Buddy was all stuffed with minute clouds."
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Sara Baume
Sara Baume (born 1984) is an Irish novelist whose first novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Irish Book Award for Newcomer of the Year, and the Kate O'Brien Award. In 2023 she was named on Grantas Best of Young British Novelists list.
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