Lantern Light - Softcover

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Twelve tales. Twelve hidden lives. Encompassing a spectrum of mood, style and period, these twelve stories take us into the undercurrents of their protagonists lives. From black comedy to domestic tragedy, to a simple moment which alters the course of a life forever - each story treads an unsettling path between the arc of lamplight and the darkness beyond. In Jesse s Room a bereaved nurse working in a care home develops a disturbing relationship with a dying patient that offers unexpected deliverance. Lilian takes us to the postwar East End, where a char lady unwittingly becomes a lifeline for her tormented employer. The Welsh Valleys of the 1930s is the setting for the title story when an epiphany at a magic lantern show spurs an exhausted mother to take control of her life, while in Ralph the death of a childhood friend exposes long-suppressed feelings of guilt and betrayal . The twelve very different stories in this collection meld the supernatural and the macabre with waspish comedy and the sadness of muted tragedy to examine those moments of revelation we all experience and which in some way represent a turning point. Whether shattering or unremarkable as they strike, and whether redemptive or destructive in nature, their power is always for better or worse - to change our sense of self and to alter, in however subtle or momentous a way, the course of our lives.

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