SPOUSES & OTHER CRIMES

Spouses &, Other Crime In this wittily titled, career-spanning collection, Andrew Coburn uncovers and lays bare the compromises and motivations that push us, stumbling, through the mire of daily life, whether in the backwaters of hometowns or out there in a wider world. , We open with a story of small town back in the 1960s, a disturbing story, transportable to any decade, anywhere. The viewpoint of a 12-year-old boy melds, seamlessly, into that of the boy now become a man, struck with the realization that the past is coming back to threaten a terrible disruption.  ,The eponymous anti-hero, Charlie, once &ldquo,a fifty-year-old slip of a fellow, brittle and bird-like, created, it would seem, out of chewed chicken bones,&rdquo, returns, chillingly