Shirley Jackson

Edith Wharton

Angela Carter

Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Berridge

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Katherine Mansfield

Mary Angela Dickens

Elizabeth Bowen and Kate Roberts

: And Nights by the Fire

Stories for Winter

A collection of short stories by Elizabeth Berridge.

Stories from the 1940s

Tell it to a Stranger

'It was not until the middle of October, with dusk curtaining the hills, that Emma at last arrived at the house she had so oddly inherited.' So begins the story of a divorcee, approaching middle-age who returns to her childhood home in the Welsh mountains, where an old house has been bequeathed to her by the village doctor. As the reason for the legacy begins to emerge, and the truth of old love affairs is revealed, she enters a relationship of her own. First published in 1995, Touch and Go is a beautifully written evocation of a woman's effort to rebuild her life.

Touch and Go

Louise leaves her husband and returns to the house where she was brought up. Nowadays, the Hollies is a refuge for that vanishing species, the Great British Aunt. T ogether the women probe the secrets hidden by family pride. '

Across the Common

Elizabeth Berridge

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