Description
Product ID: | 9780954899547 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets |
Authors: | Author: Sophie Hannah |
Page Count: | 272 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Short stories |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Why does the same stranger keep appearing in the background of a family's holiday photographs? What makes a woman stand mesmerised by two children in a school playground, children she's never met but whose names she knows well? The stories in this title reveals these secrets. Everybody has their secrets, and in Sophie Hannah''s fantastic stories the curtains positively twitch with them. Who, for instance, is the hooded figure hiding in the bushes outside a young man''s house? Why does the same stranger keep appearing in the background of a family''s holiday photographs? What makes a woman stand mesmerised by two children in a school playground, children she''s never met but whose names she knows well? And which secret results in a former literary festival director sorting soiled laundry in a shabby hotel? All will be revealed...but at a cost. As Sophie Hannah uncovers the dark obsessions and strange longings behind the most ordinary relationships, life will never seem quite the same again. |
Imprint Name: | Sort of Books |
Publisher Name: | Sort of Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2008-02-22 |