Such Devoted Sisters - Hardcover

'Mackay sees "eternity in a plastic flower and the human condition in the brittle pink Little Princess Vanity Set in the supermarket" - junk not changed, but momentarily backlit, in moments of joy and pain' Guardian Shena Mackay has written fifteen works of fiction - novels and short stories, including The Orchard On Fire which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995. She lives in Southampton where she is writing her memoir. Now all of her novels and short stories will be published as Virago Modern Classics

Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh. Her first two novellas appeared in 1964. Since then she has written eight novels and three volumes of short stories. THE ORCHARD ON FIRE was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996. Her work has been widely anthologised and broadcast and was the subject of a BBC Bookmark film in 1993. A new collection of stories, THE WORLD'S SMALLEST UNICORN, was published in 1999.