The transition of Coral Fairweather from village beauty to village outcast begins with the fathering of her child by a vagrant painter. Soon, fuelled by suspicion and gossip and spurred on by a malicious widow, the village's bitter witch-hunt speeds towards a terrifying climax.

Old Crow

Literature & Fiction

shena-mackay

Contemporary

Minerva

<p>A novel set in Redhill, Surrey, during a gloriously hot summer. Rebuffed by fortune, Luke Ribbons yearns for the alluringly fragrant bosom and soft, blousy mother-love of Pearl Slattery, but she doesn't share his romantic vision. By the author of "Dunedin" and "The Laughing Academy".</p>

Redhill Rococo

Daphne and Rex live lives of well-to-do elegance while Rex's brother Stanley scrimps for tobacco and Camp coffee. Rex's daughter has also become a victim; her cruel husband has turned her into an eccentric skivvy. If life is a bowl of cherries, there are always those left with the bruised remnants.

A Bowl of Cherries

Heligoland

Vintage

Shena Mackay's perceptive black comedy takes us between New Zealand in 1909 where Jack McKenzie arrives from Glasgow to become a pastor in the New World, and present-day London where his descendants are leading very different existences. Past and present merge in Mackay's most poignant novel.

Dunedin

The Artist's Widow

Spine creased, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Collected Short Stories

Penguin

Dancing On the Outskirts

Short Stories & Anthologies

Virago

Bowl of Cherries B

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