Tell No-One about This

This collection confirms Jacob Ross as one of the very best short story writers in the Caribbean and the UK. The stories display characters caught at specific moments of realization or self-discovery, an engaging narrative drive, meticulous construction, an exactness of image and a rigorous economy of style. These stories are shaped by a powerful and persuasive moral compass that is never neat or moralistic. There is, in particular, an inwardness with the lives of woman, what they suffer at the tongues or hands of men, their ingenuity in fighting back, and insightful speculation on what in the male psyche is so problematic.