Böcker av Zenda Vecchio

This collection of short stories - probably my last - is made up of remnants, snippets of dreams, of things that have happened and things that I have only imagined. Hopefully, together they make up a field of flowers even if the flowers are only made up of fabric.

I dont take photographs. Or paint. Instead I use words as my medium my way of capturing what I see and turning it into something meaningful. My hope is that the reader too will be able to see what I have seen, feel what I have felt. This is of course the essence of communication.

One summer's day, thirteen-year-old Kirsty-Lee comes home from school to find her father has left them. This novel explores the ways in which she comes to terms with this and the subsequent changes in her family. Zenda Vecchio is an award-winning writer whose numerous short stories have been published in a variety of literary journals and magazines. Becoming Kirsty-Lee is her second novel for adolescents.

The poet Sylvia Plath wrote in 'Black Rook in Rainy Weather', 'let spotted leaves fall as they fall / without ceremony or portent'. If I think of my stories as leaves, then they are leaves from many different trees. Or maybe they are just many different colours. These stories are selected from four collections published by Ginninderra Press and are my attempt to give every one of them - my stories, that is - another chance to fall willy-nilly into what I hope are your expectant hands. Zenda Vecchio is an award-winning short story writer and poet whose work has been published in a variety of literary journals and magazines. She has also had two young adult novels published, as well as a novel for adults, The Swan's Egg.