Holidays

by John Harrison

Published 1 August 1996
Rose, faced with a further spread of cancer, has come, on her counsellor's advice, to a lonely Yorkshire cottage. For a week she will live alone, without the aid of her smothering husband, and make some decisions about where she is going. Embracing her solitude avidly, she nevertheless reckons without Ralph, a very unusual odd-job man, who proves to be not the solution she seeks but the catalyst to her ultimate decision.-1 woman, 2 men