Nicole Field’s Reviews > Mud: Stories of Sex and Love > Status Update

At least nothing traumatising in this last story, even though I'm not sure what the waffling words were about.

The story of a woman whose mother has died, living with her memories of her mum.

Oooh, really nifty retelling of Beowulf.

Another story that follows the pattern of the way a woman is taught to behave, into a relationship that seems good, and then turns abusive. There's rather a lot of that in this collection. :/

"He doesn't try and come on to her in any way. So she starts to like him, that quickly."

I've seen many people write various stories based on Jane Eyre, but this one almost seemed unrelated as the French woman focused almost solely on a small girl called Adele.

I really couldn't read this, between the violence, language and the tone of a child talking about men using women for sex.

A long story about unrequited love between a woman and her cousin and also the same woman and George Sand. At the end, they two end up together leaving the woman, Guilia, alone.

Seemingly a love story, this one had a disturbing twist at the end.

Slowing right down to tell this story, Roberts describes seemingly every minute detail of surroundings first, and plot a distant second. This story is the rebound relationship told halfway between dream and real life.