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Synopsis
'Cassie came to Helen's sixth birthday party in scarlet hotpants. She played in the garden with the other little girls. The mothers who had come to help were in the living room smoothing paper tablecloths across tables and pouring beakerfuls of cherryade, leaning against the window sills and nibbling at sausage rolls and twiglets. The children had taken outside with them fistfuls of iced gems... I watched Cassie riding Helen's new bike around and around the lawn. Now l feel sure that if Laura had ever wanted to harm herself then the explanation must lie with Cassie'.
During one long shining summer of school trips, games in the playground, amber limbs in the long grass and sudden rain, the secretary puzzles over why her assistant, Laura, is increasingly wan and withdrawn. Bit by bit she pieces together the real, disturbing story of the two sisters' past before she turns, inevitably and painfully, to her own.
Suzannah Dunn gives us stories of the suburbs which are as brittle as they are funny. Her observations snip away at home life until, little by little, we discover the secret truths women find so difficult to tell.
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About the Author
Born in 1963, Suzannah Dunn lives in Brighton. She is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Tenterhooks and Blood Sugar. She is a graduate of the creative writing course at the University of East Anglia. Darker Days Than Usual is her first book.
Review
Susannah Dunn is a new writer, with a brilliant touch. This collection, a novella and short stories, have a wonderful wit and a splendid sense of indirection...Her dissections of the quiet hell of family life are splendid, and she has an absolutely convincing voice of her own * Malcolm Bradbury * A highly promising writer whose work shows a haunting grasp of the unease which lurks in the apparent calm of suburban landscapes * City Limits * Suzannah Dunn writes wonderfully well about families - the tensions between sisters, mothers and daughters. Funny and bleak at the same time, her stories with their uncomfortable attention to the detail of daily life are totally captivating. * Kate Pullinger *
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- PublisherSerpent's Tail
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 185242172X
- ISBN 13 9781852421724
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages128
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Softcover (with Flaps). Condition: Good. First Edition. Illustrated card cover with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "During one longer shining summer of school trips, games in the playground, amber limbs in the long grass and sudden rain, the secretary puzzles over why her assistant, Laura, is increasingly wan and withdrawn. Bit by bit ship pieces together the real, disturbing story of the two sisters' past before she turns, inevitably and painfully, to her own." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. Creasing to the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Remains of a sticker to be seen on the front panel. Age toning of the textblock edges and pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 125, [3] pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Previous bookseller's sticker to the rear panel. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 185242172X. ISBN/EAN: 9781852421724. Inventory No: 0118846. Seller Inventory # 0118846
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