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How I discovered this book: I've read quite a few of Jenny Twist's short stories and novellas before, and liked them.
Genre: Short stories, miscellaneous drama.
These five stories are grouped together under the loose theme of mother love, and they are all very different. Two are flash fiction, one page long each, and I liked both of those. The others are long-short stories. The middle one is an amusing fantasy about the possible existence of fairyland (note for author: I liked the last paragraph very much). The last is the best one, I think, a piece of romantic suspense with the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War; I particularly liked the authenticity of the setting. The first is about a 1960s mother and baby home, which I was slightly less keen on, as I kept expecting a dark twist that never came. I am not, of course, criticising the author because she didn't write the story I wanted to read; this is just personal taste, and I am sure many would prefer the more promising outcome.
It's a nice collection for a couple of undemanding hours' reading.
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