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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

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  Blue Nights by Joan Didion

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  A devastating account of the premature death of Didion's daughter from pneumonia and septic shock. Blue Nights is a tragic companion-piece to The Year of Magical Thinking - a raw meditation on the death of Didion's husband. Precise, humane and utterly candid, yet perhaps less emotionally taut than her previous work.

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  The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

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  Journalist and novelist Joan Didion describes the year of her life which followed the death of her beloved husband. In a somewhat similar vein to C. S. Lewis' clinical appraisal of his emotions in Grief Observed, Didion explores her misery, bewilderment and occasional madness.

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  Slouching towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

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  The marvellous Joan Didion captures the mood of 1960s California, and indeed much of America, in her collection of essays on American life. Seen by a journalist and written by a poet.

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  Salvador by Joan Didion

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  A sharply-written, explosive piece of journalism from Joan Didion as she reports from El Salvador in 1982 at the crescendo of a brutal civil war. Vivid, haunting and incredibly powerful.