Publisher's Synopsis
Chosen for their contemporary edge in both setting and story, this collection reflects the lives of contemporary women of mixed age and background. The collection hosts an all-female cast covering themes of travel, arrival, change, reconciliation, departures, estrangement, death, survival and the intricacies of women's lives. Stories included: Kate Waddon: Wild Romances, Satterday Shaw: We shall all be changed, Carolyn Thomas: The King of the Fairies, Gosia Bazzanca: Summer's End, Sylvia Rose: By the Water's Edge, Naomi Paulus: Lipstick Eyebrows, Julie Primon: Something about weddings, Tracey Rhys: Pearls Before Swine, Chinyere Chukwude-Okeh: To buy an expensive dream, Ellen Davies: Scab.
