'Not a tale here fails to expand in the imagination of the reader' - Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Taylor – the author of twelve novels and four short story collections – excelled at unravelling the tragi-comedy of ordinary life.
Stories such as 'Summer Schools', 'Flesh' and 'The Devastating Boys' confirm her status as one of Britain's finest writers. This selection also features two previously unpublished stories and three uncollected ones, including the late, poignant tale, 'The Wrong Order'. Together they celebrate a formidable stylist whose ability to convey the uneasy undercurrents - the 'dangerous calm' - of even the most banal situations, has delighted readers and critics for fifty years.
