The flaws and greed of humanity are exposed
Clare Colvin has a collection of her short stories out: Stone Children and Other Stories.
The SE London author is a novelist, short-story writer, opera critic and journalist. She is the writer of three novels, The Mirror Makers, A Fatal Season and Masque of the Gonzagas. As a journalist she has edited an arts diary for the Observer, worked as a theatre critic for the Evening News and the Times, and was literary editor for the Sunday Express. Her short stories have been published in a number of anthologies, and often draw on her travels, including several months in India and Lebanon, where she raced as an amateur jockey.
In Stone Children, Britain’s love – and usage – of the Continent is laid bare. A couple eat their way through France and are over-come by greed; an ashes-scattering goes terribly wrong; a house is haunted by pain and abuse.
Through each powerful tale we follow, mesmerised, moving through time and across continents, as the flaws and greed of humanity are exposed with extraordinary skill and wit.
These wide-ranging stories that flit between dark and light will appeal to lovers of historical novels, travel and the arts.
ISBN: 978-1-80447-110-4
£10
