The stories / Jane Gardam.

The stories in this collection showcase Gardam's stylistic versatility and psychological insight. Throughout the collection she probes the inner lives, secret desires, and hidden pasts of her characters.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gardam, Jane
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Europa Editions, 2014.
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Uniform Title:Short stories
Table of Contents:
  • Hetty sleeping
  • Lunch with Ruth Sykes
  • The great, grand, soap-water kick
  • The Sidmouth letters
  • A spot of gothic
  • The tribute
  • The pig boy
  • Rode by all with pride
  • The Easter lilies
  • The first Adam
  • The pangs of love
  • Stone trees
  • An unknown child
  • Showing the flag
  • Swan
  • Damage
  • The Dixie girls
  • Groundlings
  • Grace
  • Miss Mistletoe
  • Telegony: Going into a dark house ; Signor Settimo ; The hot sweets of Cremona
  • The boy who turned into a bike
  • Missing the midnight
  • The zoo at Christmas
  • Old filth
  • The green man
  • Soul mates
  • The people on Privilege Hill.