A Lovely and Terrible Thing by Chris Womersley
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Overview: Around you the world is swirling – you pass through a submerged town; the bakery, a wheelbarrow, a bike floating on its side on the main street, its steeples and trees barely visible through the thick water.
In the distance the wreck of the gunship HMS Elizabeth lolls on a sandbank a couple of miles from the shore. Oil slicks the canals of the capital and even now in the midst of the bombing, the old men still tell tales of mermaids in the shallows.
A pool, empty of water save for a brackish puddle at one end that has escaped the summer heat. A mess of fine bones and hanks of fur – the remains of mice or possums that have tumbled in, lured perhaps by the water. Two boys stand by its edge, watching a stolen bracelet flash through the humid air into the deep end.
In bestselling author Chris Womersley’s first short fiction collection, twenty macabre and deliciously enjoyable tales linked by the trickle of water that runs through them all will keep readers spellbound until their final, unexpected and unsettling twist…
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Short Stories
Headful of Bees
The House of Special Purpose
The Possibility of Water
The Very Edge of Things
Growing Pain
Petrichor
The Middle of Nowhere
The Other Side of Silence
The Mare’s Nest
The Age of Terror
Dark the Water, So Deep the Night
Where There’s Smoke
Season of Hope
A Lovely and Terrible Thing
Blood Brother
Crying Wolf
The Deep End
The Shed
Theories of Relativity
What the Darkness Said
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