A sensational short story collection from Britain's master of the
genre. Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love affairs,
these stories unroll with piercing wit and compassion. One woman
finds grief for her lost lover is assuaged when she invests in a
new front door. Another grows increasingly frustrated as the grim
reaper scythes through her circle, with farcical and tragic
results. Elsewhere, a chain-smoker's brush with death appears to
help him reassess his priorities, a south London builder avenges
the duping of his adored mother, and a phlebotomist's relationship
is pushed to it limits by her preoccupation with war. And in the
title story, a teacher's circular walk on Hampstead Heath leads to
revelations about mourning, ageing, and new life. 'A masterful
contemporary exponent of the genre. Simpson now deserves to be
compared with Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro' Robert McCrum,
Observer
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