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I found this book very frustrating. There is no doubt that the author writes well and intelligently and can set a scene and introduce characters. But for my money I need a point to a short story. To my mind these stories have no point. I suppose, to be fair, this sort of short story can be compared to an impressionist daub. But when I get to the end of it I say to myself "so what?". The art of short story writing, at any rate short story writing that pleases me, is to make a point. These stories just tale off into nothing and there seems no rhyme or reason why they should end when they do.Nevertheless I'm going to try one of her novels, because there, surely, she has to have a plot.

There are other fine short story writers working today, but for my money, Tessa Hadley is the finest. No tricks, no reader manipulation, no easy answers, just honesty and a vivid, clear style that ropes you in from the first and holds you to the end.

A good book to read when travelling as the short stories are interesting and mostly not too long

Some quite different short stories, giving an intimate look into lives that are sometimes quite ordinary, sometimes less so.

I didn't realise this was a collection of short stories but very well written