A dozen stories deal with an unsuspecting alibi, a woman's long correspondence with a writer, young girls preparing for their first dance, and a troubled meeting between two ex-lovers
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Elizabeth Taylor was born in Reading in 1912. The daughter of an insurance inspector, she worked as a governess and, later, in a library. At the age of twenty-four she married and had a son and daughter. She lived much of her married life in the village of Penn (Bucks). She died in 1975.
Brilliantly amusing * ROSAMOND LEHMANN * An eye as sharply all-seeing as her prose-style is elegant -- even the humdrum becomes astonishing * DAILY TELEGRAPH * How skilfully and with what peculiar exhilaration she negotiated the minefield of the human heart * JONATHAN KEATES * A wonderful novelist * JILLY COOPER *
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