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Parts of “The Cruelty of Life” were quite moving but for the most part it was the first story in the book that was disjointed and hard to get through.

“A question of delicacy” . How far would you take your suspicions of another person, even when you learn you were wrong?

“The Music of Sundays”.
Beautiful.

“Now” about a family’s anguish about committing their mentally disturbed son is amazing. Such a talented writer

Wow. These first two stores are like being punched in the gut. I regret having never read her before.

And Georgina Requeni, who is still holding her hand in front of her and has just shouted something, even though she can't remember what, looks around, terrified, as if her own cry had woken her and sees, as one sees the end of a dream, that all the faces are strange and are staring at her. And that the hand stretched out in front of her is the hand of an old woman.