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Stories
Picador
January 2012
On Sale: January 3, 2012
160 pages
ISBN: 1250003164
EAN: 9781250003164
Kindle: B005J4EXNW
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Fiction
One of England’s finest and most loved writers explores the
uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public
appearance and their private desires in two tender and
surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved widow
finds interesting ways to supplement her income by
performing as a patient for medical students, and renting
out her spare room. Quiet, middle-class, and middle-aged,
Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys
role-play at the hospital, and the irregular and startling
entertainment provided by her tenants. In The Shielding of Mrs. Forbes, a disappointed middle-aged
mother dotes on her only son, Graham, who believes he must
shield her from the truth. As Graham’s double life becomes
increasingly complicated, we realize how little he
understands, not only of his own desires but also those of
his mother. A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy
with two stories of the unexpected in otherwise apparently
ordinary lives.
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