Pigeon

Overview

An incongruous ice-cream van lurches up into the Welsh hills through the hail, pursued by a boy and girl who chase it into their own dark make-believe world, and unfurl in their compelling voices a tale which ultimately breaks out of childhood and echoes across the years.Pigeon is the tragic, occasionally hilarious and ultimately intense story of a childhood friendship and how it’s torn apart, a story of guilt, silence and the loss of innocence, and a story about the kind of love which may survive it all.

Author Biography

Alys Conran's fiction, poetry, and translations have been placed in several competitions, including the Bristol Short Story Prize and the Manchester Fiction Prize. Having previously studied English literature at Edinburgh, she completed her MA in creative writing at Manchester. She also ran projects to increase access to creative writing and reading among traditionally excluded groups in north Wales.