The Good Housekeeping Short Story Collection

Good Housekeeping magazine presents a brand new series of fiction books, kicking off with 'Great Escapes'. This book includes stories from some of our most popular and widely read award-winning authors. The stories are aimed at the readers of GH magazine - primarily women aged 25 to 55 - and deal with the myriad issues facing women today. Each story is a generous bite size of well-written, self-contained fiction perfectly suited to holiday reading. Authors include: Rose Tremain, Fay Weldon, Deborah Moggach, Lesley Pearse, Kate Mosse, Helen Simpson, Isabel Wolff, Natasha Cooper, Virginia Ironside, Polly Samson, Pat Ferguson, Nell Leyshon, Amanda Craig, Elizabeth Buchan, Jane Elizabeth Varley, Kathy Lette and Nicci Gerrard. Publishing in association with Childline, a proportion of royalties will go towards helping the charity and its work. A high profile celebrity will be involved in the promotion of the book.

Three hilarious short stories by David Lodge showing changing sexual mores over 50 years with an Afterword by the author describing the provenance of each story.

From the Orange Prize winning author of HomeAcclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphansgrowing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America.Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother. Steeped in imagery of the bleak wintry landscape around them, the sisters' struggle towards adulthood is powerfully portrayed in a novel about loss, loneliness and transience.'I love and have lived with this book . . . it holds a unique and quiet place among the masterpieces of 20th century American fiction.' Paul Bailey'I found myself reading slowly, than more slowly--this is not a novel to be hurried through, for every sentence is a delight.' Doris Lessing