Roar (short story collection)

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Roar

First edition
Author	Cecelia Ahern
Audio read by	Aisling Bea, Lara Sawalha, Adjoa Andoh
Language	English
Publisher	HarperCollins UK
Publication date	October 2018
Pages	352
ISBN	978-0008283490

Roar is a 2018 short story collection written by Cecelia Ahern.

Contents[]

1. "The Woman Who Slowly. Disappeared"
2. "The Woman Who Was Kent on the Shelf"
3. "The Woman Who Grew Wings"
4. "The Woman Who Was Fed by a Duck"
5. "The Woman Who Found Bite Marks on Her Skin"
6. "The Woman Who Thought Her Mirror Was Broken"
7. "The Woman Who Was Swallowed Up by the Floor and Who Met Lots of Other Women Down There, Too"
8. "The Woman Who Ordered the Seabass Special"
9. "The Woman Who Ate Photographs"
10. "The Woman Who Forgot Her Name"
11. "The Woman Who Had a Ticking Clock"
12. "The Woman Who Sowed Seeds of Doubt"
13. "The Woman Who Returned and Exchanged Her Husband"
14. "The Woman Who Lost Her Common Sense"
15. "The Woman Who Walked in Her Husband's Shoes"
16. "The Woman Who Was a Featherbrain"
17. "The Woman Who Wore Her Heart on Her Sleeve"
18. "The Woman Who Wore Pink"
19. "The Woman Who Blew Away"
20. "The Woman Who Had a Strong Suit"
21. "The Woman Who Spoke Woman"
22. "The Woman Who Found the World in Her Oyster"
23. "The Woman Who Guarded Gonads"
24. "The Woman Who Was Pigeonholed"
25. "The Woman Who Jumped on the Bandwagon"
26. "The Woman Who Smiled"
27. "The Woman Who Thought the Grass Was Greener on the Other Side"
28. "The Woman Who Unraveled"
29. "The Woman Who Cherry-Picked"
30. "The Woman Who Roared"

Reception[]

Roar received "Positive" reviews according to the book review aggregator Book Marks based on nine independent reviews.^[1] Kirkus Reviews called it "a sharp, breathtaking collection of fables."^[2]

Adaptation[]

In August 2018, before the collection was published, the stories were set to be adapted for TV.^[3] Apple TV+ picked up the series, and the series was shot in 2021.^[4]

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