Fiction – paperback; Simon & Schuster; 240 pages; 2025.
Wait Here, a volume of short stories by Lucy Nelson, has been long-listed for this year’s Stella Prize.
The judges described it as “virtuosic” and “glistening”, noting the collection’s “incredibly interesting and innovative” use of the short fiction form and the way each story varies significantly in tone, perspective and style. And yet, for me, each felt truly intimate, as if whispered directly into the reader’s ear — and heart.
Largely themed around motherhood, mothering and all the ways in which women who are childfree are judged, seen or set apart, I loved this entertaining, compelling and thought-provoking book. I ripped through it over the space of a weekend and wished I had taken a bit more time to linger over each story, there’s just so much to reflect on.
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