The Benefactors: ‘So fresh, so sharp, so wry, so alive’ Lucy Caldwell

by	Wendy Erskine

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Dimensions	13.5 × 21.6 cm
by	Wendy Erskine
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Pages	336
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year Published	2025-6-19
Imprint	Sceptre
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	1399741675
About The Author	Wendy Erskine is the author of two short story collections, Sweet Home and Dance Move. She was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize, longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and she received the Butler Literary Award and the Edge Hill Readers' Choice Award. She edited the art anthology well I just kind of like it. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is a frequent broadcaster and interviewer, and works as a secondary school teacher in Belfast. The Benefactors is her debut novel.
	Wendy Erskine's writing is inimitable – so fresh, so sharp, so wry, so alive; so much contemporary fiction feels flat and fake in comparison. In all of its glorious polyphony, The Benefactors brims with humanity. It's got snap, it's got sparkle, it's got soul. All of Belfast is here, all of life. I adored it.
Other text	The darkly funny, and gripping debut novel from a literary star: three women from very different families are brought together when their sons are accused of assaulting a young woman whose social standing they see as far below their own.