Openings

I seem to find that it’s in the short story form more than any other medium that I find art that captures as closely as possible those brief moments or phases of life, those times of paradox, of flux, or contradiction that occur when inner ideals collide with outer reality. Those crystalline moments of introspection that reveal at least some facets of the infinitely-sided human condition. You see quality in Joyce’s Dubliners, throughout Carver, in Chekhov and Tolstoy.

Until coming across this collection, I had always found British short story writing lacklustre, and tended to find the best of British introspection in plays, such as the work of Stoppard and Pinter.

This collection of short stories by Lucy Caldwell is modern, fresh and full of life.

Some moral dimensions needed to the characters pursing infidelity.