In a remote Australian settlement a young wife with an untellable secret reluctantly invites her neighbour into her home. A Quaker spinster offers companionship to a condemned man in a Colorado jail. In the ice and snows of Siberia an office employee from Birmingham witnesses a scene that will change her life. At a jubilee celebration in a northern English town a middle-aged alderman opens his heart to Queen Victoria. A teenage daughter leaves home in search of adventure. High in the Cumbrian fells a woman seeks help from her father''s enemy.
Spare, precise, charged with a prickly wit, the stories in Carys Davies''s sparkling second collection remind us how little we know of the lives of others.
"extraordinarily powerful" - VS PRITCHETT PRIZE JUDGES JANE GARDAM, PENELOPE LIVELY AND JACOB ROSS
"darkly funny and unsettling" -BOYD TONKIN The Independent on Some New Ambush
"As if Mark Twain and Annie Proulx had sat down at a desk together [....] I shall be looking out for more." -PIERS PLOWRIGHT
"a writer willing to tackle the hardest of all fictional forms - the short story. This is a region in which so many fail [...] she can do what it is essential to do in this form, she can create a micro-world, which has reverberations beyond its size and scope, which is metaphysical." -SARAH HALL
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The stories move seamlessly between the familiar and the surreal, between reality and fantasy, sanity and madness... The attention is focused as through a magnifying glass and we are hooked, drawn into an imaginary world of which we wish to know more... her spare, concise, clear style is ideally suited to a genre in which every word must earn its keep.--Hazel Watson "Book Club Reviews - Bromley local meeting "
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