What shapes the way we see ourselves?

An administrator is forced into early retirement as a doctor steps back from an overburdened life. A girl discovers her sexuality and an older man reconsiders his own. A widow won’t let past trauma become public property; another honours loss with defiance.

Partners, parents, lovers and professionals confront the roles they’ve been handed and decide if that’s who they really are. Careers end. Relationships strain. Desire awakens. Beliefs are tested.

Across forty-two playful, poignant and quietly provocative short stories, lives shift at moments of change. Work, love, faith, culture, class. The roles we inherit and the ones we resist. The bodies we live in. The histories we carry.

Must we accept the identity we’re given or can we choose the someone we become?

intelligent, insightful writing which takes you beneath the surface of life in many, many ways Pamela Robertson, Books, Life and Everything

every single one of the forty-two stories in Becoming Someone is a hit! Anne Goodwin has such an observant eye for human motivation and behaviour  Stephanie Jane, Literary Flits