Hwang
Waking the Princess
Monday Diary
Gingerbread Boy
Rose Red
The Captain's Daughter
Pied Piper
Boot
Scouting for Boys
Homecoming, 1909
Historia Calamitatum Mearum
Metamorphosis
In Skokie
The Visitors
Ugly Sister
Products specifications
Author
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Carys Davies |
Pub Date
|
01/10/2007 |
Binding
|
Paperback / softback |
Pages
|
144 |
Country
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United Kingdom |
Dewey
|
823.92 |
GBPPrice
|
9.99 |
From the award-winning author of West and The Mission House
Some New Ambush is the first collection of short stories from award-winning writer Carys Davies. Love, loss, birth, death, betrayal, madness - they all lie in wait for Davies's characters in their startlingly different worlds: a dry cleaner's shop in contemporary Chicago, a mining town in South Wales in the sixties, a lunatic asylum in nineteenth century northern England.
Shot through with wit and aching emotional poignancy, these stories tell of how we attempt to confront the things life throws in our path - often when we least expect them, and in places where we never thought to look. They tell of the mistakes we make along the way, and of how we try to deal with the whole difficult, unpredictable business.
There is the boy who steps into his best friend's clothes in a desperate bid to fulfil his dreams, the man who comes up with an amazing new invention to win the heart of the woman he loves, the bored young wife doomed to live on an island where everything is red, the middle-aged woman who finds a baby in the sand and passes it off as her own.