A review by sharonbakar
BBC National Short Story Award 2016 by Hilary Mantel, Lavinia Greenlaw, K.J. Orr, Jenni Murray, Claire-Louise Bennett, Tahmima Anam

4.0

I had the original broadcasts downloaded from the BBC and therefore the luxury of listening to the stories as I read. My favourite story in the collection is Tahmima Aman's Garments about Bangladeshi women working in a garment factory - and their strength and dignity despite the poverty of their lives. I used it in the classroom alongside Yiyun Li's story Extra (from A Thousand Years of Good Prayers) because both stories illuminate small lives and show them in the context of the wider society and globalisation.