Women awake to all sorts of realizations in Not Singing Exactly: awareness of love, of deceit, of loss, of the passing of time - realizations which change their lives for ever. Set against backgrounds which range from west Wales in the twenties to Hampstead in the seventies, these stories show the full range of Sian James's subtle gifts as a storyteller. Full of compassion towards the ways of the heart, sharply aware of the lies we tell ourselves, she is never afraid to chart in full the highs and lows of human feeling.

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