In this collection of stories, the ghost of a doomed romance haunts an Oxford undergraduate's summer affair, elderly ladies live out extraordinary fantasy lives, and betrayed wives wreak subtle revenge. Angela Huth brings to this exquisite collection all the wry delicacy, subversive wit, and keen eye for the drama in the quietest of lives that characterize her acclaimed novels.
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The ghost of a doomed romance haunts an Oxford undergraduate's idyllic summer affair; a tragedy of hopeless love and murderous frustration is played out against the backdrop of a provincial repertory company; passion and hatred flower side by side in suburban gardens. Angela Huth peoples her stories with elderly ladies living out extraordinary fantasy lives and betrayed wives wreaking subtle revenge. Drawing out their secret disappointments and their dreams of glamour, she brings to this exquisite collection the wry delicacy, subversive wit, and keen eye for the drama of the quietest lives that distinguish her widely hailed novels.
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This collection of short stories draws on the lives of a diverse lot, and Robert Kee slips easily into the narrative voice of each story, telling each tale as if he were describing a typical day in the life of the family next door. But each of these families brings to everyday experiences a twist and a slightly eccentric and quirky view of the world. In a steady, sometimes staid, at times indignant, voice Kee speaks well for this rather motley group. As a collection, the stories lend themselves well to audio format as each brings out some aspect of its characters' common passions and fears in circumstances not so different from ours but, nonetheless, all their own. J.E.M. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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