Wednesday 27 June 2012

The darkness of wallis simpson - Rose Tremain



We say: ***

Its a collection of short stories that starts with a fabulous tale of what the last days of Wallis Simpson might have been like. A frail, dementia ridden shadow of her former self, kept barely alive in a sumptuous - and now abandoned - Parisian flat.

Followed by 11 other tiny stories for its not but a slim volume that set the imagination alight: a baby with wings? A redundant East Germany border guard? Delightful....

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