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With her customary accuracy, Jane Gardam reveals the extraordinariness of ordinary people as she deals with the pangs of love- fulfilled or hopeless, sexual or spiritual, tortured or hilarious- in these eleven stories.
Paraded here are ladies with a 'thing' about vicars, strange events happening in ornate downstairs lavatories (and in ornate upstairs ones), and the English abroad, desperate and dotty. The glum and impossible Edna haunts the supermarket- and dispenses an unlikely kiss of life. The younger sister of Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid declares her sibling 'very silly' and turns her story on its tail, an old maid forms a curious liason with a tramp, and small moments of temptation fill hotel rooms as histories glance briefly off each other.
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There is, in Jane Gardam's writing, the air of a magician. Each story unfolds with precision, art concealing art, and with a marvellously satisfying punch line (DAILY TELEGRAPH)
A spare and elegant master of her art (THE TIMES)
Exuberant narration and stylish dialogue; I read it with relish... powerful and haunting. (Penelope Lively, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)
Marvellously precise sleight-of-hand short stories. (DAILY MAIL)
All the stories possess a delicacy and economy which leaves one, having read them, with just the right measure of pleasurable incompleteness (FINANCIAL TIMES)
Assured and enjoyable (STANDARD)
She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Observer)
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A spare and elegant master of her art (THE TIMES)
Exuberant narration and stylish dialogue; I read it with relish... powerful and haunting. (Penelope Lively, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)
Marvellously precise sleight-of-hand short stories. (DAILY MAIL)
All the stories possess a delicacy and economy which leaves one, having read them, with just the right measure of pleasurable incompleteness (FINANCIAL TIMES)
Assured and enjoyable (STANDARD)
She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Observer)
This collection of short stories reveals the extraordinariness of ordinary people; ladies with a "thing" about vicars, strange events in ornate lavatories, and the English abroad - desperate and dotty. All suffer the pangs of love - fulfilled or hopeless, sexual or spiritual.
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- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0349114048
- ISBN 13 9780349114040
- BindingPaperback
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