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The Redemption of Galen Pike


A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection

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In a remote Australian settlement a young wife with an untellable secret reluctantly invites her neighbour into her home.

A Quaker spinster offers companionship to a condemned man in a Colorado jail.

In the ice and snows of Siberia an office employee from Birmingham witnesses a scene that will change her life.

At a jubilee celebration in a northern English town a middle-aged alderman opens his heart to Queen Victoria.

A teenage daughter leaves home in search of adventure.

High in the Cumbrian fells a woman seeks help from her father's enemy.

Spare, precise, charged with a prickly wit, the stories in Carys Davies's sparkling second collection remind us how little we know of the lives of others.

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