Mrs Calder and the Hyena by Marjorie Ann Watts
The second collection of short stories by an acclaimed writer who is now in her late nineties.
Mrs Calder is frail and distractedShe annoys her daughter by living in disorder, taking up with vagrants, hanging around churchyards and giving free rein to her imagination (she thinks about her doctor with no clothes on). But the real hindrances to right perception in this tale, and throughout Marjorie Ann Wattss exhilarating second collection, produced at the tender age of ninety-eight, are not the fantasies by which we sustain ourselves but the suffocating illusions of others. Particularly those who want whats best for us. Where is safe? Where can we start again? Whether in homes troubled by age and bereavement or foreign cities consumed by idealistic revolution, there are no answers, as Mrs Calder herself puts it, except to pick up these stories wherever we left off, and gratefully read on. Will Eaves
Marjorie Ann Watts trained as a painter and illustrator with Edward Ardizzone and Harold Jones, then worked as an art editor and typographer. She worked as an illustrator (on books such as Catherine Storr’s Marianne Dreams), before beginning to write and illustrate her own books for children. She has also written a novel and a guide to European painting for young people. Her father was a Punch cartoonist and graphic artist; her grandmother founded PEN International, as well as writing several volumes of poetry and twenty novels. She lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781739421267 |
| ISBN 10 | 1739421264 |
| Title | Mrs Calder and the Hyena |
| Author | Marjorie-Ann Watts |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | CB Editions |
| Year published | 2025-01-28 |
| Number of pages | 198 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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