Looking for Joan and Other Stories

Christopher Owen

Looking for Joan and Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Troubador Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
28 January 2024
Pages
192
ISBN
9781805142621

Looking for Joan and Other Stories

Christopher Owen

Looking for Joan and Other Stories is a collection of stories set in UK, Ireland, and New York.

A bereft widower roams the city in search for his late wife. His 'search' is advanced in five of the stories.

The odyssey of a couple separating and finding their way back to each other.

Four Marylebone Cricket Club Members at Lord's Cricket Ground.

A bibulous old actor is guide for the walk: 'Murder in London's West End'.

Two small-time criminals work the bar at Fortnum and Masons in Regent's Street.

A woman remembers King's Cross, London.

Men lay turf in preparation for a VIP ceremony in a London Park.

A soprano and her pianist are stranded in Bristol.

A woman escapes to Ireland from the consequences of a fatal car accident.

Review of America Awaits Us, My Lovely:

'They are sensitive and engaging and I have enjoyed reading them very much' - Penny Thomas former fiction editor, Seren Books.

'A wonderful story collection! They are so touching, unflinching, melancholy - everybody just about holding on.' - Chris Buckton, writer, educationist.

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