pure Delight' The Timesthroughout Her Career, Prize-winning Novelist Jane Gardam Has Been Writing Glorious Short Stories, Each One Hallmarked With All The Originality, Poignancy, Wry Comedy And Narrative Brilliance Of Her Longer Fiction. Passion And Longing, Metamorphosis And Enchantment Are Gardam's Themes, And Like A Magician She Plucks Them From The Quietest Of Corners: From Wimbledon Gardens And Cold Churches, From London Buses And Industrial Backstreets. A Mother Watching Her Children On The Beach Dreams Of A Long-lost Lover, An Abandoned Army Wife Sees A Ghost At A Moorland Gate, A Translator Adrift In Geneva Is Haunted By The Unspeakable Manifestation Of Her Own Fears, And A Colonial Servant Wreaks A Delicious Revenge On Her Monstrous Masters.