Life is full of surprises. But perhaps this is never truer than when seemingly ordinary people act in extraordinary ways. Why does a happily married, middle-aged businessman end up in the middle of a wood, at night, shivering and naked? Why is a quiet, frail old lady plotting to bump off her best friend's beloved pet pooch? And why is a young girl left lying unconscious among a pile of table tennis trophies? Greed, resentment, jealousy and desperation are laid bare as the characters in Jacqueline Fortescue's collection of short stories find themselves caught up in a sequence of entirely...
Life is full of surprises. But perhaps this is never truer than when seemingly ordinary people act in extraordinary ways. Why does a happily married, ...
