Dr Clock's Last Case | eBook

A collection of short stories from the author of "Twenty One Poems" and "Three Poems".

A. S. Byatts comment that Ruth Fainlights poems combine Alice Munros virtues with something more archaic and also, in exact clear words, give us a truly new vision of usual and mysterious events can be applied with equal force to this collection of stories. Acutely precise and elegant, they move from vivid evocations of an American childhood and close studies of amoral expatriate life to erotic humour and black fantasy. The breakdown of a middle-aged man when the ghost of his mother, who perished in the Holocaust, returns to haunt him; the unexplained midnight arrival of three likely terrorists at the comfortable English village house of a university professor; a womans half-reluctant marriage to her daughters fiance: all these stories demonstrate Ruth Fainlights uncompromising subtlety of style, and the range of her sympathies and imagination.