Journey of a Lifetime

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Pan MacMillan (Bello), May 17, 2012 - Fiction - 170 pages
"Journey of a Lifetime" was Gillian Tindall's first collection of short stories since The China Egg, which was published in 1982. Eight stories relate to travel and/or foreign lands, while the ninth is about a foreigner in England. The title story, ostensibly very much of the real world, gradually reveals a darker and odder side, as does 'In A Past Life', originally read on Radio 4. All twelve stories of the collection, while they vary greatly in mood and treatment, explore in one way or another the subject of identity and memory - with wit, high intelligence and the confidence of a writer whose first book of short stories, "Dances With Death," met with universal acclaim on its publication in 1973.

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About the author (2012)

Gillian Tindall began her career as a prize-winning novelist. She has continued to publish fiction but has also staked out an impressive territory in idiosyncratic non-fiction that is brilliantly evocative of place. Her "The Fields Beneath: The History of One London Village" which first appeared thirty years ago, has rarely been out of print; nor has "Celestine: Voices from a French Village," published in the mid 1990s and translated into several languages, for which she was decorated by the French government. Well known for the quality of her writing and the meticulous nature of her research, Gillian is a master of miniaturist history. She lives with her husband in London.

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