In this volume of previously uncollected stories - including those read on radio - she constantly surprises with a view of the ordinary world that is not at all ordinary.Ī grasshopper determinedly takes up residence on a bathroom ceiling a gecko hiding in a cupboard brings a strange sort of luck a woman spies from a distance two older women friends after many long years and a memory of how they gallopedin the playground as Starlight Blaze and Pepperpot plays sweetly, suddenly in her mind pigs are swaddled in blankets, looking like babies in shawls luggage is packed with youthful hopes and ideals. Shena Mackay, who first came to fame before the age of twenty with two novellas, is the doyenne of the short form. Here is a wonderful collection of short stories by the writer known for 'the Mackay vision, suburban - as kitsch, as unexceptional, and yet as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house, its threshold radiant with tiling and stained-glass birds of paradise encased in leaded lights' - Guardian.
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