The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories by Penelope Lively

Lively remains a sublime storyteller Guardian on How It All Began More stylish than many writers half her age . . . Lively knows a thing of two about storytelling. The Times on How It All Began A dream house that is hiding something sinister two women having lunch who share a husband an old woman doing her weekly supermarket shop with a secret past that no one could guess a couple who dont know each other at all even after fifteen years together and in the story from which this collection takes Paperback softback