![]() The guiding spirit of the Modernist writer Katherine Mansfield flits through the collection as she picnics with her partner and a would-be lover by a Cornish lighthouse, writes her last words in Fontainebleau, and glides on the wings of an albatross past a tiny hamlet on the edge of the Southern Ocean. ![]() Set in diverse locations - from the Cornish Riviera to the lush fringes of the Australia’s tropical rainforest, from the wild beaches of southern New Zealand to the west coast of Ireland - revelations come to these characters unexpectedly: in a shower of gold on a snow-covered volcano in Antarctica at a graffiti-scarred Aboriginal sacred site in a mouthful of cake. Like the group of lovers caught in bittersweet relationships in the title story, the characters in this collection are all trying to find their way, whether it is to escape the hold of the past, understand the complexities of adult emotion, or face up to the shocking disjunction between dream and reality. ![]() ![]() Long-listed for the Edge Hill Short Story Award 2016 ![]()
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