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Music Upstairs
SHENA MACKAY MEMOIR
The Virago Book of Such Devoted Sisters
Never were there such devoted sisters...or so the song would have it. Though some may be inseparable, for others the relationship arouses intense, tangled emotions. Louisa May …
Shena Mackay Memoir
Born on D-Day, Shena Mackay's life began with euphoria - had the nurses had their way, her name would have been Deeday. In this funny, celebratory and heart-felt memoir, she takes …
Pleasures and Days
Set amid fin-de-siecle Parisian salon society, these sketches and short stories depict the lives, loves, manners and motivations of a host of characters, all viewed with a …
Orchard on Fire
Many regard this as Mackay's masterpiece. A touching, funny novel about childhood in the 1950s: friendship, village life and lost innocence.
Spoon River Anthology
Realistic, and often cynical, these epitaphs are spoken from the grave by a collection of two hundred and forty four people buried in a village cemetery in America's Midwest. The …
Orchard on Fire
Set in the small English village of Stonebridge, the Orchard on Fire tells the story of eight-year-old April Harlency's coming-of-age in a place where the charm of the local …
Dancing On the Outskirts
Here is a wonderful collection of short stories by the writer known for 'the Mackay vision, suburban - as kitsch, as unexceptional, and yet as rich in history and wonder as a plain …
Advent Calendar
FROM THE AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE (1996) AND THE WHITBREAD PRIZE (2003)'Shena Mackay was a sixties phenomenon' GUARDIAN 'A Christmas story without the mistletoe and …
Dreams of Dead Womens' Handbags
In stories as intriguing as their titles--"Pink Cigarettes", "Electric-Blue Damsels", "Other People's Bathrobes"--Shena Mackay, "a master of the short story" ("The Daily …