Little Black Book of Stories

First edition. 12mo. Pp. [viii], 279. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to front cover and spine; maroon endpapers.

Five fairy tales for grownups: two middle-aged women walk into a forest confronting their childhood fears and memories; a distinguished male obstetrician and a young woman artist have very different ideas about body parts, birth and death; a man meets the ghost of his living wife; a woman turns to stone. And a member of an evening creative writing class turns out to have her own decided views on the best way to use 'raw material'.

"Her finest collection yet [...] Bleak then surprisingly funny, very dark indeed then full of inconceivable sources of light." –The Guardian