Mr Wrong

Mr Wrong

by HowardElizabethJa (Author), ElizabethJaneHoward (Author)

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of the Cazelet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's Mr Wrong, a collection of short stories.

In this dazzling short story collection, including Mr Wrong, The Devoted and Three Miles Up, master storyteller, Elizabeth Jane Howard, illustrates her renowned style and delicious wit.

From a family Christmas, to a house-party in France, and a haunting journey into the macabre, Howard explores the subtle tensions of relationships; from flat-sharing to adultery. Funny, perceptive and spine-tingling, Howard's stories are sure to delight.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: On Demand
Publisher: Picador
Published: 10 Sep 2015

ISBN 10: 1447272439
ISBN 13: 9781447272434
Book Overview: From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles - a collection of short stories.

Media Reviews
Howard has a gift for tilting our sense of reality . . . wry humour and elegant perceptions. * Guardian *
As polished, stylish and civilised as her many devotees would expect. -- Julian Barnes
Each of these stories may be read again with real pleasure. * Daily Telegraph *
Author Bio
Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fifteen highly acclaimed novels. The Cazalet Chronicles - The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, Casting Off and All Change - have become established as modern classics and have been adapted for a major BBC television series and for BBC Radio 4. In 2002 Macmillan published Elizabeth Jane Howard's autobiography, Slipstream. In that same year she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. She died, aged ninety, at home in Suffolk on 2 January 2014.