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Yes Yes More More - Anna Wood

Yes Yes More More

By: Anna Wood

Paperback | 15 August 2021

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Two schoolgirls in Bolton take acid just before their English class. A film journalist shares tea and a KitKat with Marcel Proust, more or less, during a long train journey. An afterparty turns into a crime scene. Colleagues, maybe in love, have lunch and don’t quite talk about their relationship. A woman flees to New Orleans and finds unexpected treasures there.

In her electric debut, Anna Wood skips through the decades of a woman’s life, meeting friends, lovers, shapeshifters and doppelgangers along the way. Pleasures and regrets pile up, time becomes non-linear, characters stumble and shimmy through moments of rupture, horror and joy.

Written with warmth, wit and swagger, these stories glide from acutely observed comic dialogue to giddy surrealism and quiet heartbreak, and always there is music – pop songs as tiny portals into another world. Yes Yes More More is packed with friendship, memory, sexuality, love, and the radical possibilities of pleasure.

About the Author

Anna Wood has written for Mojo, The Quietus, Dazed and Caught By The River, and has had stories featured in the Guardian, the Canongate anthology My Old Man and forthcoming in the 3 of Cups anthology Outsiders. Anna Wood has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA and has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Centre in Provincetown and at the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation in Sozopol. She was the winner of the 2018/19 Galley Beggar Short Story Prize. She lives in London.
Industry Reviews

Thoughts, connected, on Mayday

https://www.thesocial.com/thoughts-connected-on-mayday-by-anna-wood/

-- Anna Wood

Bumper Christmas Issue

Featured in 'New Year's Read-olutions: What we're looking forward to in 2021'

* The Indie Insider Newsletter *

'This!! Book!! It makes me ache. I ache for nights out and hangovers and weddings and holidays, I ache for pubs and New Orleans and swimming in the pond.'

https://twitter.com/alicemjslater/status/1348756457932660739

-- Alice Slater * Twitter *

'An ode to being alive & the sometimes painful beauty of the world, immerses you in a stream of brilliant shining moments, carries you effortlessly on its flow. I'm in awe.'

https://twitter.com/Catrionaward/status/1349328073213308928

-- Catriona Ward * Twitter *

'The writing is sharp and funny and the dialogue is relatable and genuine. I just couldn't stop reading and ended up finishing the last story in a stone cold bath! I can't recommend this collection enough.'

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKG4_YZgRb5/

-- @bookishchat * Instagram *

'Amazing and brilliant'

https://twitter.com/TedKessler1/status/1352577170967822337/photo/1

-- Ted Kessler * Twitter *

'Really really brilliant', 'filled with vitality', 'we love it'

Stay Indoors and Read: Episode 4

https://edmcdonaldwriting.com/stay-indoors-and-read/

-- Ed Mcdonald and Catriona Ward * Stay Indoors and Read (vlog) *

Rough Trade Book Club with Leone Ross and Anna Wood

https://www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/rough-trade-book-club-04052021/

* Soho Radio *

Review: Yes Yes More More by Anna Wood (2021)

'The writing is dazzling - so sharp and fresh and vivid - every sentence zings with truth.'

https://elspells.home.blog/2021/05/06/review-yes-yes-more-more-by-anna-wood-2021/

* Elspells *

Review: Yes Yes More More
'Days of glory, joy and happiness is a fair description of most of Yes Yes More More.'
https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/102954-2/

-- Alex Diggins * 3AM Magazine *

Review: Yes Yes More More by Anna Wood

'This is a book about what it takes to be alive, a field guide to living life as well as we possibly can, while we can.'

https://lunate.co.uk/reviews/yes-yes-more-more-by-anna-wood

-- Gary Kaill * Lunate *

Anna Wood's Yes Yes More More: Stories of Pleasure and Friendship
'Published by The Indigo Press, Wood's debut is a comical, heart-warming and introspective example of masterful short fiction'
https://nrthlass.com/2021/05/31/anna-woods-yes-yes-more-more-stories-of-pleasure-and-friendship/

-- Beth Barker * NRTH LASS *

10 reasons to love Yes Yes More More

https://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2021/06/10-reasons-to-love-yes-yes-more-more/

-- Wndy erskine * Caught By The River *

Review | Yes Yes More More by Anna Wood
'After being deprived of these things for so long, many of us are realising just how precious they are as we creep back to normality. Yes Yes More More, already a trove of joy and feeling, therefore comes to us at a time when we are even more capable of appreciating it.'

https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/review-yes-yes-more-more-by-anna-wood/

-- Alys Key * The London Magazine *

The best books of 2021 so far: Novels, memoirs, short stories and more

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-best-books-of-2021-so-far-novels-memoirs-short-stories-and-more-1.4596346

-- Wendy Erskine * The Irish Times *

The good life: Delight, indulgence and grit in Anna Wood's Yes Yes More More
'Fifteen immensely nourishing stories that shimmer with thrills, fun and pleasure, each one a chomping bite of everything good about life.'
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/yes-yes-more-more-anna-wood-book-review-alice-ash/

-- Alice Ash * The Times Literary Supplement *

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