by Clare Wigfall (Author)
One long hot summer, Evelyn drowns a wasps' nest, and while digging among the tiny corpses makes a sinister discovery. A university professor arrives unannounced at the door of an Arizona fortune-teller, little knowing how this woman will alter his life. A sudden spate of disappearing newborns terrifies a young mother. As the Prussian army encroaches, the besieged city of Paris asks an enormous sacrifice of its city zookeeper. And over a Coca-Cola in an Andalucian village bar, a woman hears from a stranger the worst thing a mother can do.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 02 Aug 2007
ISBN 10: 0571196306
ISBN 13: 9780571196302
Book Overview: A magnificantly assured, dark-hearted and breath-takingly skilled debut collection of short stories from writer Clare Wigfall.