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Kiss and Part: Short stories by [Salley Vickers, Joan Bakewell, Marina Warner, Jo Baker, Elizabeth Speller, Maggie Gee, Maria McCann, Jill Dawson, Catherine Fox, Lucy Durneen, Margaret Drabble]

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by Salley Vickers (Author), Joan Bakewell (Author), Marina Warner (Author), Format: Kindle Edition

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What does it mean to 'kiss and part'? This collection of previously unpublished short stories from a stellar list of contemporary women novelists is a literary celebration of the spirit of place.

Each contributor shares one thing in common - they have all stayed at a small cottage in the village of Clifford Chambers near Stratford-upon-Avon, courtesy of a trust set up to provide women writers with ‘a room of one’s own’, as Virginia Woolf put it.

Clifford Chambers was the home of the Jacobean poet Michael Drayton, who incorporated the phrase ‘Kiss and part’ into a sonnet. Each of the ten short stories in this collection takes this as its theme and the result is wonderfully eclectic mix of storytelling of the highest quality.

All royalties go the Hosking Houses Trust to further encourage women’s writing.

Contents List

Preface
‘Kiss and Part’ by Michael Drayton
Introduction by Margaret Drabble

Buck Moon Marina Warner
‘A Merrie Meeting’ Salley Vickers
The Incumbent Elizabeth Speller
‘Colossal Wreck’ Maria McCann
The Visitation Maggie Gee
And the River Flows On Joan Bakewell
The Creature Jill Dawson
The Turn Catherine Fox
The Fabric of Things Jo Baker
‘Place of Dreams’ Lucy Durneen

The Writers
Afterword by Sarah Hosking
Acknowledgements of Photographs

Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled	Page Flip: Enabled
Language: English

Product details

ASIN : B07XY58LJ1
Publisher : Canterbury Press (19 September 2019)
Language : English
File size : 612 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 224 pages

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Anna D

Delightful cover truly complements contents

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 December 2019

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This is a perfect Christmas present, as well as a long-term treasure: a group of very different women writers, some of them most eminent (eg Joan Bakewell, Sally Vickers), have been commissioned to write a short story that has its roots in the small historic Warwickshire village where the excellent, unique Hosking Houses Trust is based. (The Trust provides a free cottage for women writers who need its special environment to progress or complete works for publication). Margaret Drabble gives a thoughtful introduction to pull together the diversity that follows. This is a unique volume full of interest, delight and imaginative ideas that will remain with the reader long after they turn the last page. A most attractive and absorbing volume to keep and return to.

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