A Place to Call Home and Other Stories
Contents
A Room of Her Own
Le Desespoir Est Assis Sur un Banc
Conversation in a Shelter
Boomerang
A Place to Call Home
Bridges
Living Simply
Escape
A Blast in the Dark
Flight
Empty Rooms
The Fourth Mrs Dalloway
La Strada Per La Pensione
Summer Blues
Genre: Short Stories
A Place to Call Home is a collection of contemporary short stories with Home as a theme, including chance encounters, romance and mysteries.
This compelling collection contains 14 short stories that will appeal to many different moods and in many different circumstances. The stories range from 2,000-10,000 words.
What does it mean to have a home? What makes a place a home? What if you don’t have a home?
A Room of Her Own Darleene and Thandiwe were best friends in South Africa. Then Thandiwe disappeared. Darleene won’t stop looking for her
Le Désespoir Est Assis Sur un Banc: she always sits on the same bench, looking sad. One day she cries, so he stops and talks to her
Conversation in a Shelter two people with very different reasons for visiting a seaside shelter
Boomerang a treasured book, once lost, turns up again. Where has it been and who has been reading it?
A Place to Call Home he hasn’t seen Justyna since the old days. She turns up on his doorstep at midnight with a six-year-old son. They need a place to stay, just for one day
Bridges two people come to start their lives together on the other side of the bridge. Their new home begins to mean different things to them
Living Simply after years of drudgery in a dead-end job, Ray is going to sell up and use the money to pay for all the things he’s wanted to do for a long time. Simple things, the right things
Escape a couple look for ways to leave the rat race, giving up all their possessions and breaking free.
A Blast in the Dark is the story of a homeless girl someone meets at a train station and how the encounter plays out
Flight the flat was their haven, their flight from the world of sterility and wrong choices
Empty Rooms he wasn’t ready for the silence of empty rooms, a loved one gone
The Fourth Mrs Dalloway she’s always had money and can’t understand the lives of those who haven’t, until she encounters the desperate and abandoned and learns about the days of the Spike
La Strada Per La Pensione two young people travelled a thousand miles to pursue a dream
Summer Blues two people share an unexpected summer in a flat one of them was hired to decorate
