Thirteen short stories by Audrey Thomas, a well known Canadian writer, who lived in isolation in some faraway place (Galiano island, British Columbia). I breezed through them. They have some quality which draws you into them. Unfortunately, I don' remember much of each story.
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Without referring to the book and the stories I'll try to recollect them - a lady who meets an interesting man who is into catching hummingbirds (some sort of a naturalist) and they seem to have got together, in one story most interestingly one incident where a friend of the narrator has her head torn off in an accident (that i remember that only shows what I have become), an Indian wife in an African land perhaps and her strange customs while trying to fit into the local crowd (there is another mention of another Indian lady somewhere else - not in the most flattering way though), one story about a young boy on vacation with his father and step mother on a nudist camp, mother daughter out on vacation - and a disco that frees the mother, a sign in a hotel bathroom mirror that says 'Goodbye Harold and Good luck' written by the previous occupant - which shows how easy it is to gain your freedom - just like that.
No wonder she is highly regarded. Each story had a haunting quality to it.
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