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Dame Margaret Drabble wrote the fourteen stories that comprise this superb collection of short stories over a forty-year period. In each of them, Dame Margaret examines the private lives and passions of everyday people. From one man’s honeymooning epiphany in "Hassan’s Tower" to the journeying fantasies of "A Voyage to Cythera", and from the sharp joy of "The Merry Widow" to the bloody reality of the collection’s title story, these are moving, witty and provocative tales, exploring cruel and loving relationships, social change and personal obsessions, and confirming her status as a leading practitioner of the art of the short story.