There’s Always More to Say

Important Shipping Notice: Due to the ongoing Canada Post strike, delivery times may be longer than usual. Where possible, we’ll use alternative shipping methods to help get your order to you sooner. We appreciate your patience and understanding as your order makes its way to you.

A note to US-based customers: All Lit Up is pausing print orders to the USA until further notice. Read more

There’s Always More to Say

By (author): Natalie Southworth

In the title story of Natalie Southworth’s debut collection, sisters sneak out of their unstable mother’s apartment to find “reality,” an experience with lasting repercussions. Southworth concentrates on moments like this—moments of disconnection, family fragility and unexpected expressions of love.

The stories that make up There’s Always More to Say focus on characters struggling to achieve what they think they should want despite the demands and loneliness of modern life. A puppeteer attempts to reinvent himself as a realtor. Preteen girls strive to become like their absentee fathers. A nanny must decide between her future or that of the family dog. A high-achieving working mother is imprisoned by her antidepressants.

Infused with humour and verve, yet full of warmth, Southworth interrogates the quest for more and what it means when ambition clashes with private reality.

AUTHOR

Natalie Southworth

Reviews

I was a convert to Natalie Southworths fiction from the first story I read This book is ambitious deeply intelligent and psychologically fearless Natalie Southworth has a surgical eye for a specific species of suffering the kind that comes as the cost of what wed thought we wanted Paige Cooper Giller Prize finalist

They are beautiful and shimmering stories with so much subtlety and nuancethe tension and unease are palpable yet mostly under the surface I picture them as Chagall paintingsbeautiful constellations of images and ideasTheres a great deal of wisdom here about the lives of women and a cleareyed lack of sentimentality Alix Ohlin twotime Giller Prize finalist