A brilliant
- & rather transgressive
- collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies Including a new story The School of English Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished & acclaimed writers In these ten bracingly subversive tales all her gifts of characterisation & observation are fully engaged summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday facades Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes in Comma'; nurses clash in Harley Street' over something more than professional differences; & in the title story staying in for the plumber turns into an ambiguous & potentially deadly waiting game Whether set in a claustrophobic Saudi Arabian flat or on a precarious mountain road in Greece these stories share an insight into the darkest recesses of the spirit Displaying all of Mantel's unmistakable style & wit they reveal a great writer at the peak of her powers