Pear Trees, by Laura Beatty

Forthcoming  in mid-April 2025: Now available for pre-order

A short story by Laura Beatty about death – and life.

After a stranger calls at Evi’s house, she becomes convinced she has been visited by Death. But what is really happening?

Poetic, moving and often funny, Laura’s wry short story is set in an imagined mountain village in Albania. It blends folklore and ecology to ask the biggest of questions about our relationship with the living world.

Laura Beatty

Laura is the author of two biographies, two novels and two genre-defying books (a mix of travel, history, memoir and fiction). Her first novel, Pollard, won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award as well as being shortlisted for the Ondaatje prize for books which evoke the spirit of place. Her most recent book, Looking for Theophrastus, was shortlisted for the Runciman prize. Laura lives in Bath and on the Greek island of Syros.

Eco-print paperback made of 100% recycled paper, printed in Suffolk with non-GM vegetable inks.

Pre-ordered copies will be dispatched after 16th April 2025.