Darker Days Than Usual
During one long shining summer of school trips, games in the playground, amber limbs in the long grass and sudden rain, the village school secretary puzzles over why her assistant, Laura, is increasingly wan and withdrawn. Bit by bit she pieces together the real, disturbing story of the two sisters' past before she turns, inevitably and painfully, to her own.
"Atmosphere was what was crucial for me, here... a building of suspense in the most ordinary of environments."
'Metroland’s answer to dirty realism'
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Tenterhooks
In 'Slipping the Clutch', Miranda walks out of Boots one day into beautiful, beloved, fast-living Uncle Robbie who, years beforehand, taught her to drive in his Alfa Romeo and then died in his Lagonda. Well, what's past is past. Or is it?
In 'Stood up and thinking of England', Gillian's family are refugees from the 70s recession, bankrupted in Britain, surviving in Spain. But then from back home come the King family, very definitely on holiday...
Eight other stories including, 'Guts for Garters,' 'Possibility of Electricity,' and 'Don't touch it, Don't ignore it, Stay calm.'
"To be honest, my heart is with short fiction, both as a reader and a writer..."
'Even a box of frozen spinach becomes an object of beauty in the sensuous hands of Suzannah Dunn'
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—Mail on Sunday
'Suzannah Dunn hears and sees the unheard and unnoticed'
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