Introduced by Giles Gordon.Elspeth Davie is one of Scotlands finest and most underrated short-story writers. Her prose style is as clear and occasionally unnerving as that of Muriel Spark, yet her work reveals a gentler and more compassionate, but no less penetrating eye for the beauty and the strangeness of the daily human condition.This wide-ranging collection of the very best of Elspeth Davies short fiction offers an important reassessment of a wonderful writer.Exceptionally powerful . . . this is a most impressive collection, a work of genuine imagination. And Mrs Davies measured, subtly cadenced prose is a pleasure to read. ObserverMrs Davie commands a beautifully clear prose style that she can intensify when necessary to touch the hem of poetry. Edinburgh Evening News Shows the skill and originality of the writer in articulating and devising images for human doubts and ambiguities. Herald
