Ellie grows up in a small town in Canada, on the edge of the Southern Alberta Badlands. The nearby prairie is her playground; in its bleak, beautiful expanses she discovers imaginary flamingos and a real fossilized dinosaur.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Gail Hughes
EAN: 9781913830908
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES: 100
WEIGHT:
HEIGHT: 198 mm
PUBLISHED BY: Parthian Books
DATE PUBLISHED: 2026-08-06
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GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
WIDTH: 129 mm
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Book Themes:
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Short stories
Gail Hughes was an adventurer and linguist. She settled in Bangor,north Wales after travels in Europe and the Middle East. She beganwriting stories about her childhood and adolescence in southernAlberta, Canada in the 60s influenced by Alice Munro and KatherineMansfield. They were published to critical acclaim as Flamingos, a year before her death in 2001.