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9780312283230

The Happiest Days

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312283230

  • ISBN10:

    0312283237

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2001-09-08
  • Publisher: Picador
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Summary

Brilliant stories about the emotional realms of childhood Even happy days come to an end. In this remarkable collection, Cressida Connolly explores the lives of children and young people who, in the wake of events that alter everything, find themselves changed forever. A conversation on a trip to the zoo heralds the end of a family; a boy watches his father fold Aunt Rose into his arms and loses his vocation; a young girl grows jealous of the attention paid to her dying sister. Each of these perfectly crafted stories examines familiar emotionslove, loss, jealousy, lonelinesswith a fresh eye. The Happiest Days is an exciting, original, startling debut.

Author Biography

Cressida Connolly is a journalist and reviewer. She lives in England with her husband and three children.

Table of Contents

How I Lost My Vocation
1(20)
Canada
21(14)
The Pleasure Gardens
35(22)
Greengages
57(22)
Granville Hill
79(20)
Paradise Drive
99(22)
Bare
121(20)
The Bounce
141(24)
Indian Summer
165

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