From Amazon:

Long enough to get your teeth into, but short enough to read in a flash of the eye, these 22 stories are startlingly different--from pensioners with a penchant for Manolos, to a magical cookbook that bites back; from school reunions with a difference to adventure games taken seriously. And what characters pop out of their slender pages, as large and as deeply rounded as in any novel. Ladies who breakfast at Tesco's, with dark secrets to mull over; limbless swimmers who fall dangerously in love, honeymooners who fall prey to the aphrodisiac qualities of fish, authors whose long-forgotten, half-finished novels come back to haunt them and lottery winners who bet on the ultimate, impossible odds.

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When I bought the book in Maastricht at a book-fair, I did not realise or notice, that it contained 'short stories'! You see, I don't usually like them all that much. I always want to know more about the characters and what happened before and after that specific event.

I gladly made an exception for this collection though! I liked the stories a lot! 'Faith and Hope go shopping' was one of my favourites.

On its way to the winner of my 'Guess the date I will register my 500th BC-book' contest.

Enjoy!

thanks for this lovely present for guessing right :-) and congrats with that milestone :-)

on the table

Found this book at today's meeting in Castricum and took it home with me. Thanks, bestfriends and rodespringbal!