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A surprising ambush
Some New Ambush by Carys Davies Salt Publishing £899
I rarely choose to read short stories, and the station bookstall before a long journey or the bedside reading in a holiday hotel usually confirm my prejudice But these are different: short certainly, but succinct and (best of all) surprising – we are indeed ambushed
What world are we in? The stories move seamlessly between the familiar and the surreal, between reality and fantasy, sanity and madness: from the all-too-human dilemma and its surprising resolution in Hwang, to the altered sensibilities of a Celtic faery-land in Rose Red, and the shocking dénouement in Ugly Sister Children are a recurring theme: child-longing, child-birth, child-rearing and childhood are touchingly evoked, as are the lonely, the eccentric and the sad Settings vary from suburban America to the Lake District and Wales, and in chronology from the timeless to the present day We are challenged too: do you know your Titus Andronicus, your Manilius, your ornithology, or that you really should not have dropped Latin in the lower fifth?
Hazel Watson & Michael Thomas
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