These stories by Peter Bradbury, set in Maine, Switzerland and London, explore the way people connect and disconnect, they way they struggle through the moments or long periods, the incidents or occasions, that might topple them. A boy going through puberty steals a friend's canoe. A woman turns up as the only guest at her cousin's birthday party. A composer falls in love with a married woman. A girl spends the summer on a Maine island with her father, brother and her father's girlfriend. And more. There are surprising turns and an understated humor in these stories.
These stories by Peter Bradbury, set in Maine, Switzerland and London, explore the way people connect and disconnect, they way they struggle through the moments or long periods, the incidents or occasions, that might topple them. A boy going through puberty steals a friend's canoe. A woman turns up as the only guest at her cousin's birthday party. A composer falls in love with a married woman. A girl spends the summer on a Maine island with her father, brother and her father's girlfriend. And more. There are surprising turns and an understated humor in these stories.