Simon Yarty

I stopped trying to write in my early twenties. It was always at the back of mind that I should be writing. So the years and the decades passed and finally I got to a point where I had no excuses left.
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I live and work in the County of Somerset, in the UK. That's a photograph of the cob in Lyme Regis, Dorset.

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The Blessing of Children and Other Stories

Literary Fiction/Contemporary

Seven short tales of ordinary people under pressure. A woman struggling with a falling income, a man who can only think about his career, a couple celebrating a fortieth birthday, a man coming home to a funeral, a mature couple presenting their new relationship to their respective families, a carer who has no contact with one of her biological parents and a man who comes home to a burglary.

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