The purple swamp hen and other stories / Penelope Lively.
Publication details: [Place of publication not identified] : Fig Tree, 2016.Description: 304 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 0241281148 (hbk.)
- 9780241281147
- Purple swamp hen & other stories
- 823/.914 23
- PR6062.I89 A6 2016
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Short stories | LIV | Available | 065851 |
The purple swamp hen -- Abroad -- The row -- Who do you think you were? -- Old as the hills -- A biography -- The weekend -- Licence to kill -- Mrs Bennet -- Lorna and Tom -- Point of View -- DIY -- The bridge -- Theory of mind -- The third wife.
A dream house that is hiding something sinister; two women having lunch who share a husband; an old woman doing her weekly supermarket shop with a secret past that no one could guess; a couple who don't know each other at all even after fifteen years together; and, in the story from which this collection takes its name, a bird and a servant girl in ancient Pompeii who cannot converse, but share a perfect understanding. In this new and varied collection of short stories, Penelope Lively shows that she remains a master of her craft, and one of our finest English writers.