Tony Parsons

Departures: Seven Stories from Heathrow

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Seven short stories from bestselling author Tony Parsons, based on his week as Writer in Residence at Heathrow airport.
Here is Heathrow as it has never been seen before – a secret city populated by the 75 million travellers who pass through every year, a place where journeys and dreams end – and begin.From the brilliant twenty-something kids who control the skies up in Air Traffic Control to the softly-spoken man who cares for the dogs, lions and smuggled rattlesnakes at Heathrow’s Animal Reception Centre, from the immigration officers who have heard it all before to the firemen who hone their skills by setting the green plane on fire, from the armed police who watch for terrorist attacks to the pilots who have touched the face of god – Heathrow teems with life.In Departures, his first collection of short stories, Tony Parsons takes us deep inside the secret city.
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87 printed pages
Publication year
2011
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  • Anna Avdeevahas quoted4 years ago
    ‘They do courses for people who, er, don’t like to fly,’ he said. ‘British Airways had a course called Fear of Flying – please don’t do that, darling’ (this to his daughter) ‘– and now they call it, um, Flying With Confidence.’
    Zoe laughed bitterly. ‘That’s a smart move. Flying With Confidence sounds a lot more positive than Fear of bloody Flying.’
    Nick looked hurt. ‘But that’s a good thing, isn’t it? To be positive about the . . . aversion.’

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  • Anna Avdeevahas quoted4 years ago
    ‘It says here,’ he said, ‘that twenty-five per cent of people have some fear of flying and around ten per cent have a real psychological phobia.’
    ‘But I’m not afraid of flying,’ Zoe insisted.
    In the silence her husband, Nick, and their daughter, Sky, smiled at her sympathetically, as if forgiving her this blatant lie.
  • Anna Avdeevahas quoted4 years ago
    I am not weak, she thought, so vehemently that she almost said it out loud. I’m not, I’m not, I’m not.

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