When this spirited young man and his sister had begun systematically to produce the
family skeleton for the overawing of the College, this narrative cannot precisely state.
IT'S a
family skeleton Ryan Fletcher still struggles to come to terms with.
IIf you cannot get rid of a
family skeleton, you may as well make it dance,'' said George Bernard Shaw.
During her stay, she falls foul of her despairing mother and strict grandmother, but the trio are forced to reassess their relationship when a
family skeleton is released from the closet.
Then she revealed the
family skeleton and told them how Tommy had fathered another girl even while she was pregnant with their second daughter Denise.
His dreams of running for office himself were crushed, however, when his older sister yanked the
family skeleton out of the cupboard and revealed Bobby was really her son, the illegitimate result of a fling she had with a college student whose identity she refused to reveal.
And once back in Bosnia a
family skeleton comes tumbling from its cupboard to turn his world upside down.
Meanwhile, the
family skeletons she uncovers are too small to make much of a rattle.
But
family skeletons might come out, and we don't know how to deal with them."
Here were people with no
family skeletons. They were open with one another.
The fiction shortlist features Dewi Prysor's Cig a Gwaed about
family skeletons, Manon Steffan Ros' Blasu about a woman's memories and Tony Bianchi's dark tale Ras Olaf Harri Selwyn.