Fiction: As Close As You’ll Ever Be by Seamus Scanlon

(Editor’s note: This review comes from New Yorker Marcelle Thiébaux, the
author of The Stag of Love and last year’s historical romance, Unruly Princess).

Seamus Scanlon’s 23 stunning tales in his debut collection, As Close As You’ll Ever Be (Cairn Press), feature
prize winners among them. About a third have appeared in literary magazines.

A Galway-born writer of bardic storytelling gifts, as