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A handful of people live on old boats moored at Battersea Reach on the Thames in 1961, among them Nenna, whose husband won't come and live aboard, and her two young daughters.
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Miguel Street
Linked stories of the eccentrics of a Port of Spain street in the 1940s, seen by a boy growing up among them.
Staying On
Tusker and Lucy Smalley, a retired colonel and his wife, have stayed on in an Indian hill station after Independence, living in the annexe of a hotel whose owner wants them out.
On Chesil Beach
A young couple's honeymoon night on the Dorset coast goes catastrophically wrong, and the silence between them becomes the story of a generation.
Hotel du Lac
Edith Hope, a writer of romance novels, is packed off by her friends to a quiet Swiss hotel out of season after an unforgivable lapse, and passes the time watching the other guests.
A Bell for Adano
Major Victor Joppolo, an Italian-American officer, governs the Sicilian town of Adano after the Allied invasion and sets out to find a bell to replace the one the fascists melted down.
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Nikki, a law-school dropout in London, takes a job teaching creative writing at the Sikh community centre in Southall, and finds that the widows who sign up want to write erotica.
Last Orders
Four men from Bermondsey drive to Margate to scatter the ashes of their friend Jack, a butcher, as his last wish.
The Cocktail Party
A verse play: at a cocktail party Edward Chamberlayne is trying to explain why his wife has left him, and an uninvited guest who will not give his name begins to rearrange several lives.
Tirra Lirra by the River
Nora Porteous, in her seventies, comes home to the Brisbane house where she grew up after decades in Sydney and London, and remembers her life.
The Cactus
Susan Green, forty-five, likes her London life tidy and her feelings out of view, until she finds herself pregnant just as her mother dies and leaves the family house to her feckless younger brother.
The Sense of an Ending
Tony Webster, retired and settled, receives a solicitor's letter about a small bequest from the mother of his university girlfriend, and it forces him to revisit his friendship with Adrian, the brilliant schoolfriend whose story he thought he understood.
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Paddy Clarke, ten years old, runs wild with his gang on a new estate on the edge of Dublin in 1968, while at home his parents' marriage comes apart.