
Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2016' Heart-hurtingly acute laugh-out-loud funny & not just a book of the year for me but one of the most satisfying collections I've read for years' Ali Smith Guardian A young video shop assistant exchanges the home comforts of one mother-figure for a fleeting encounter with another; a brother & sister find themselves at the bottom of a coal mine with a Japanese tourist; a Welsh stag on a debauched weekend in Dublin confesses an unimaginable truth; & a twice-widowed pensioner tries to persuade the lovely Mrs Morgan to be his date at the town's summer festival Set in Caerphilly a sleepy castle town in South Wales Thomas Morris' debut collection reveals its treasures in unexpected ways offering vivid & moving glimpses of the lost lonely & bemused By turns poignant witty & tender
- these entertaining stories detail the lives of people who know where they are but don't know what they're doing This is the work of a young writer with a startlingly fresh voice an uncanny ear for dialogue & a broad emotional range We Don't Know What We're Doing is a major launch for the Faber fiction list in 2015