Product Description
Fourteen subtle and beautifully written stories of varying theme and setting are brought together in this brilliant collection: haunting studies of lonely childhoods, shrewdly perceptive portraits of adult relationships and black comedies of domestic deadlock – all infused with Olivia Manning’s precise and consistent wit.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
From the Back Cover
“Vintage Olivia Manning, literally and figuratively. Here in a set of short stories…is the tendersness, the delicacy, the wry, sinewy relationship between people who are appealingly old-fashioned but not remotely square.” –
Sunday Times“Worth treasuring for its marvellous extensions of emotion into landscape.” –
Observer
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
