THE REDEMPTION OF GALEN PIKE

The Redemption of Galen Pike is Carys Davies's sparkling second collection, that remind us how little we know of the lives of others. Spare, precise, charged with a prickly wit.

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.

The Redemption of Galen Pike : and Other Stories - Carys Davies - 9781907773716