Preview Mr Wrong
From the bestselling author of The Cazelet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's comes Mr Wrong, a collection of short stories.
In this dazzling short story collection, including Mr Wrong, The Devoted and Three Miles Up, master storyteller, Elizabeth Jane Howard, illustrates her renowned style and delicious wit.
From a family Christmas, to a house-party in France, and a haunting journey into the macabre, Howard explores the subtle tensions of relationships; from flat-sharing to adultery. Funny, perceptive and spine-tingling, Howard's stories are sure to delight.
'Howard has a gift for tilting our sense of reality . . . wry humour and elegant perceptions' Guardian
'As polished, stylish and civilised as her many devotees would expect' Julian Barnes
'Each of these stories may be read again with real pleasure' Daily Telegraph
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Review“What unmixed pleasures . . . There’s nothing tentative about these short stories which have strong, dramatic narrative as well as personal values. . . . Accomplished entertainment for the audience which once read Daphne du Maurier and now reads Elizabeth Taylor.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Howard has a gift . . . wry humor and elegant perceptions.” —The Guardian
“As polished, stylish and civilized as her many devotees would expect.” —Julian Barnes
“Each of these stories may be read again with real pleasure.” —The Daily Telegraph
Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fourteen highly acclaimed novels. The Cazalet Chronicles - The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, Casting Off and All Change - have become established as modern classics and have been adapted for a major BBC television series and most recently for BBC Radio 4. In 2002 Macmillan published Elizabeth Jane Howard's autobiography, Slipstream. In that same year she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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