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Briar Road, a ‘quiet, intriguing mystery’ about a family trying to find their missing daughter, captivates judges of £15 prize Buckley … praised for starkly impressive prose The writer Buckley has won the BBC national short story award with a haunting account of a family struggling to find a missing daughter, Briar Road. A part-time medium arrives at a becalmed house, a home full of the stillness that follows calamity, to search for clues to the girl’s disappearance by holding an awkward seance. Some people can hear notes that others Louis Williams Jersey can’t, Buckley’s narrator explains. Some tongues can distinguish gradations of flavour that elude the majority, some noses can detect a dozen elements a perfume that to other people is a single scent.

That’s what it’s like, as I tell them. According to Buckley, whose nine published novels include He Takes the Dog and 2015’s The River Is the River, the story grew out of notes for a novel which he never completed. It was going to have a medium as its central character, but the narrator that case would have been male and the setting would have been something quite different, he told the BBC’s Front Row. I could sense it was going to turn into something like a sub-standard Spark novel, I put that aside. But returning to his notes, Buckley continued, he Magic Johnson Jersey came across another idea – a story focused on the aftermath of a crime where the victim would not appear – and the foundations of Briar Road were place. Buckley’s story won the £15 prize ahead of a shortlist that included Mantel’s controversial The Assassination of Thatcher, as well as stories from Leviston and. Chair of judges, Alan Little, hailed its quiet, intriguing mystery, adding The prose is understated, stark and plain. The intrigue builds as key details are revealed slowly, hinted at and suggested rather than spelled out. It is a haunting evocation of the tensions between family members at a moment of bearable loss borne, the outward calm masking the turmoil into which the family has been swept. Little was joined on the panel by the novelist Tash Aw, the writer Sarah Hall – who won the BBC national short story award herself 2013 – the crime writer Rankin and BBC Radio’s books editor, Di Speirs. Haddon won the £3 runner-up prize with Bunny – a story of a morbidly obese, who is trapped his home and finds love with an old school friend. Buckley joins a roster of winners including Clanchy, Miroslav Penkov and last year’s winner Shriver.

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, 10 NEWARK, N.J. – Nuggets guard J.R. Smith remained hospitalized after being thrown from his vehicle during a crash Saturday night, but his injuries aren’t believed to be as serious as first thought. J.R. is fine. There is nothing career- or life-threatening, Nuggets spokesman said. I did not hear anything that would suggest he is going to be out any. He is more concerned about the other people the accident. Smith and a passenger,, 21, of East Orange, were seriously injured Saturday when the sport utility vehicle Smith was driving went through a stop sign and overturned after colliding with a car at about 5 p.m. Millstone Township, state police said. Carroll, 23, another passenger the SUV, and Sinatra, 49, of Millstone, who was driving the car, sustained minor injuries. They were taken to CentraState Medical Center Freehold, where they were treated and later released. Both Smith and were ejected from the vehicle, said Lt. McPherson, commander of the state police’s Hamilton barracks. _ who sustained life-threatening head injuries _ was airlifted to Jersey Shore University Hospital Neptune, while Smith was taken there by ambulance. Further details on their status and their injuries were not disclosed. Smith, 21, was a player at Lakewood High School and St. Benedict’s Prep New Jersey before being the 18th overall pick of New Orleans the 2004 NBA draft. He averaged 13 points 63 for this past season.