An elderly schoolteacher recalls the single act of youthful passion that changed her life forever. A young gardener has an unsettling encounter with a suburban housewife. A teenage girl strikes up an unlikely friendship with a lonely bachelor.
In these twelve haunting stories award-winning writer Mary Costello examines the passions and perils of everyday life with startling insight, casting a light into the darkest corners of the human heart.
- ISBN10 190653926X
- ISBN13 9781906539269
- Publish Date 16 September 2013 (first published 3 May 2012)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 January 2022
- Publish Country IE
- Imprint Stinging Fly Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 179
- Language English