Fragmented

A collection of short stories

(Cinnamon Press, 2011)

This work traced a narrative from hippy squatter in the seventies to established husband, father and lecturer reflecting on his current life in inner city London. In his first collection of short fiction, Fragmented, Jeremy Worman traced a narrative from hippy squatter in the seventies to established husband, father and lecturer reflecting on life in inner city London in the present.

Many sketches are set in Hackney or Hornsey Rise – at one time the largest squat in Europe. Fragmented brings to life characters and places; examines the underside of London epitomised by outsiders, drugs, racial tension and crime, and explores deeper themes not only of childhood, family and relationships, but also of the nature of writing, political idealism, fear of oblivion and how we conjure and retain a sense of the past. The tone is variously reflective, nostalgic, critical, humorous and detached.

‘Many of Worman’s stories encapsulate a moment in time like a photograph, often embodying both place and emotion attached to it.’ – from the review of Fragmented by Hannah Lowe in West End Extra

‘The attentiveness with which he documents urban change is impressive. He shows us that the familiar places where we pass time (daydream, meet people, wait for busses) must be commemorated. It is in these places that our fragmented parts exist.’ Flora Neve in the Hackney Citizen