This author's short fiction has always been her best, and these
often very brief short pieces are terse, vivid, masterly (The Pit
is a wonderful story; Debbie and Julie is rivetingly moving). The
connections with London are actually slim; the connection with fine
writing is obvious. (Kirkus UK)
Across eighteen short stories, Lessing dissects London and its
inhabitants with the power for truth and compassion to be expected
of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. 'During that first year in
England, I had a vision of London I cannot recall now ... it was a
nightmare city that I lived in for a year. Then, one evening,
walking across the park, the light welded buildings, trees and
scarlet buses into something familiar and beautiful, and I knew
myself to be at home.' Lessing's vision of London - a place of
nightmares and wonder - underpins this brilliantly multifaceted
collection of stories about the city, seen from a cafe table, a
hospital bed, the back seat of a taxi, a hospital casualty
department; seen, as always, unflinchingly, and compellingly
depicted.
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