A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories

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A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories

by Margaret Drabble, Jose Francisco Fernandez (Editor)

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Margaret Drabble’s novels have illuminated the past fifty years, especially the changing lives of women, like no others. Yet her short fiction has its own unique brilliance. Her penetrating evocations of character and place, her wide-ranging curiosity, her sense of irony—all are on display here, in stories that explore marriage, female friendships, the English tourist abro...more

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Published May 18th 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published January 1st 2011)

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Feb 24, 2013 Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars

I thoroughly enjoyed these stories. I love the way Drabble writes - she is able to put into words small subconscious thoughts and feelings. The first line of the first story in the collection is what made me take a second look at the book: "It was the kind of party at which nobody got introduced."

But my favorite stories were "A Voyage to Cythera" and the title story "A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman." I thought both were quietly beautiful and spoke to some deep melancholy (or maybe pain?) in...more

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Feb 28, 2012 Bonnie Brody rated it 5 of 5 stars

Margaret Drabble is a well-known English novelist. I have read several of her books and have always enjoyed them. I had no idea that she was also a writer of short stories. A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories is the first compilation of her stories that has ever been published. They are presented in chronological order beginning in 1964 and ending in 2000. Like her novels, these stories often deal with the plight of women in their times, the socio-cultural aspects of mar...more Margaret Drabble is a well-known English novelist. I have read several of her books and have always enjoyed them. I had no idea that she was also a writer of short stories. A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories is the first compilation of her stories that has ever been published. They are presented in chronological order beginning in 1964 and ending in 2000. Like her novels, these stories often deal with the plight of women in their times, the socio-cultural aspects of marriage, and the difficulties that women find themselves in while trying to both raise a family and be successful in the business world. The stories are distinctively English and the countryside of England as well as the urban landscapes are vivid throughout. There is a span of thirty-six years between the first short story and the last, giving the themes a relatively large period of time in which to develop.

The first story is entititled `Les Liaisons Dangereuses'. Humphrey had met a man at a pub who invited him to a party and when he came to the door, the host acted like he didn't even know him. "It was the kind of party at which nobody got introduced." The party was comprised of clusters of people who all seemed to know one another and the conversations that Humphrey overheard were artistic and intellectual. Humphrey knew no one and no one tried to make his acquaintance. Humphrey sets his sights on a long-haired red-headed woman who is waxing pontifically to a group gathered around her. He never knew if it was accident or inspiration that caused him to set her hair on fire but this act gained him exalted entrance to the entourage.

In `A Voyage to Cythera' we watch Helen who loves to travel. Whether it's 30 miles or to another country, traveling is Helen's gift in life. She likes the feeling of moving, be it in a car, train, or plane. Traveling opens a new world for her - one of possible intimacy, adventure and the potential of becoming someone other than the lonely, bland person she is.
In `A Pyrrhic Victory', a young woman is adventuring with three others, trying to be what they want her to be. She represses her own needs and expectations. She finds herself taking on the weight and pain of acting according to what others want rather than risk being herself and seeming uncool or gauche.

`Crossing the Alps' is about two lovers who work together and are having an illicit affair. They are planning to travel from England to Yugosolavia. He comes down with a bad cold and sees her strengths and abilities as she cares for him. It is impossible for them to be together outside this week's vacation as he is married. He has a lot of difficulty understanding her strength and resourcefulness in the face of her difficult life.

`The Gifts of War' is about a woman who is in a joyless marriage with an abusive husband. Her son is her only solace, her pride and joy. As she sets off to get him an expensive and totally inappropriate birthday present, she reminisces about the time during the Vietnam War when she not only protested the war, but toys of violence.
A well-known female English playwright meets an even more well-known American literary figure in `A Success Story'. He is known for his womanizing and comes on to her at a party. This coming on means more to her than having an intellectual conversation. She is happily married and things don't go anywhere but she feels good that she is desired. The male character is based on the American novelist Saul Bellow.

`A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman' is about a woman who gets a job with her husband's help at a television station. With time, she becomes very successful and gets to have her own show. Her husband becomes jealous and begins to despise her, sometimes even hitting her in her sleep. She carries herself well and usually has a smile on her face along with a look of success. Inside, however, she feels physically and emotionally ill. Her only solace is her children who she gets to see very little of because of her grueling work schedule.

`The Merry Widow' is about Elsa who has just been widowed. Her husband was a mean emotionally abusive spouse and Elsa is glad that he is dead. She goes on a vacation alone that they had planned together and has a wonderful time until an old man with a scythe starts working the land. She realizes over time that she has mistaken him for `death' when he's really a representative of `Father Time'. She is then able to enjoy herself again and look forward to the future.

Many of these stories are about the inner lives of women. The action takes place in their thoughts, hopes and dreams. It is very clear that what is seen on the outside is frequently very different from what is going on inside. Some of the stories seem like sketches for Ms. Drabble's novels, ways for her to work out the characterizations. As a fan of Ms. Drabble, I loved this collection and feel privileged to have read it. I hope that more of her short stories come to light.
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Nov 18, 2011 Bettie rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: autumn-2011, published-2011, radio-4x, yawn, shortstory-shortstories-novellas

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May 03, 2012 Tuck rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: oh-loyd-i-wanna-be-hearkbroken, short-stories

drabble is the OG of young wo/men mixing it up on the mean streets of love. very mannered, touching almost in their innuendo, stories of uk relationships in '60's (but continues on with a braver, more liberated sense through 2000) where most everything either ends in decay, or is so rotten and putrid you can actually watch the bitterness happen over the morning toast and butter melting. lots of authors have kept to the theme (and could learn a thing or two from margaret drabble) like lorrie moor...more drabble is the OG of young wo/men mixing it up on the mean streets of love. very mannered, touching almost in their innuendo, stories of uk relationships in '60's (but continues on with a braver, more liberated sense through 2000) where most everything either ends in decay, or is so rotten and putrid you can actually watch the bitterness happen over the morning toast and butter melting. lots of authors have kept to the theme (and could learn a thing or two from margaret drabble) like lorrie moore Like Life , laurie weeks Zipper Mouth , nina-marie gardner I'm Not This Girl, peter stamm Seven Years , leigh stein The Fallback Plan , aurelie sheehan The Anxiety of Everyday Objects , lots.
here's a little excerpt from "faithful lovers" 1968 (narrator is reminiscing about her old lover as she returns from the dentist and returns to "their " old cafe):
"Then she had come out and walked along this street. And as she paused at the cafe door, she knew that she had been thinking of him and of that other year all this time, that she could not very well have avoided the thought of him, among so much familiar scenery. There they had sat in the car and kissed, and endlessly discussed the impossibility of their kissing; there they had stood by that lamp-post, transfixed, unable to move. The pavement seemed still to bear the marks of their feet. And yet is was all so long ago, so thoroughly slaughtered and decayed. It was two years since she had cared, more than two years since she had suffered."
"She was content, she was occupied, she had got her tooth back, everything was under control. And in a way it made her almost happy to be back in this place, to find how thoroughly dead it all was. She saw no ghosts of him here; for a year after their parting she had seen him on every street corner, in every passing car, in shapes of heads and hands and forms of movement, but now he was nowhere any more, not even here. For as long as she had imagined that she saw him, she had imagined that he had remembered. Those false ghosts had been in some way the projected shadows of his love; but now she knew that surely they had both forgotten."

i love it, thoroughly slaughtered, false ghost, 2 years since she had suffered, more than 2 years since she had cared, thoroughly dead. YESSSS(less)

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Mar 28, 2012 Korri rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: great-britain, short-stories, fiction, women-s-history, gender

I'd read Margaret Drabble's literary criticism but not her fiction before picking up this slim volume. She has such precise, crisp, and lucid prose.

Her earlier stories are so finely polished that they're almost brittle. With their mannered characters and London scenes they could be from another era--the 1930s as easily as the late 1960s.

Her later works moved me more. Whether as narrator or protagonist, women and their experiences are at the center of Drabble's stories. Grounded in the specific...more

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Dec 19, 2011 Brianna Mulligan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Honestly, I saw this on a bookshelf and a corner bookstore (aren't those fabulous?) and was drawn to the title and the cover. (I find myself often juding a book by its cover, although we are taught from an early age the dangers of such judgement.) As I have mentioned before, and will mention again, I'm a fan of short stories and vignettes, often drawn into the idea of getting to know a character well and quickly and feeling a story progress despite a chronological narrative. The story begins fro...more

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May 14, 2012 Eva Nickelson rated it 3 of 5 stars

I saw this book on the shelves of the library and picked it up. I hadn't heard of Margaret Drabble, but I was willing to give it a shot. I enjoyed the short stories, most of which uncovered the depth behind the everyday life of the women protagonists. While some uncomfortable truths are revealed in the course of the story, I found the sentiments of the stories to ring true for me.
Technically, the short stories were wonderful. Drabble was quick to the point, using just the right number of words...more

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Oct 21, 2011 Susan rated it 4 of 5 stars

I am the first to admit that I'm not a huge fan of the short story form, probably because I'm such a lousy short story writer. That said, this is a wonderful book for folks like me. Each story (collected from Drabble's ouevre from 1964 to 2000 and in chronological order) is a precise and whole story. Not like today's metafiction wherein things are often left unresolved and hanging, Drabble pinpoints the essence of her characters and gives us a window into their lives at the moment they are being...more

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Sep 27, 2011 Jeruen Dery rated it 3 of 5 stars

An edited version of this article was first published as Book Review: A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble on Blogcritics.org.

I don't have plenty of good experiences when it comes to short stories. I suppose the reason behind this is that I have a set of expectations when it comes to reading, and short stories are just the wrong genre to fulfill it. The last time I have read a collection of short stories was when I picked up The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolaño, and I r...more An edited version of this article was first published as Book Review: A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble on Blogcritics.org.

I don't have plenty of good experiences when it comes to short stories. I suppose the reason behind this is that I have a set of expectations when it comes to reading, and short stories are just the wrong genre to fulfill it. The last time I have read a collection of short stories was when I picked up The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolaño, and I remember not fully liking it either. I suppose this is about the same.

The different thing for this one, however, is that there is a theme to it. This is a collection of short stories about women; each story features one. And they are interesting women as well. In "Hassan's Tower", there is the hard-headed female tourist who drags her husband all across town in Morocco to see archaeological relics, while navigating the numerous touts that plague the tourists. In "The Merry Widow", there is the woman who is finally overjoyed now that her annoying husband is dead. In "Crossing the Alps", the story tells of a woman who drives a sick husband across Europe. Women seem to be strong characters here.

The inverse of that is true as well: men are weak and sick. "Crossing the Alps" features a husband who is so sick, he becomes delirious, nursing a high fever. In "The Caves of God", the story features a wacko husband who discovers an esoteric religion and decides to be a pilgrim in the middle of Turkey. The male partners of the women that are featured in "A Success Story" and "A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman" are all good-for-nothing bastards. I guess if the author's goal is to magnify the role of women, one way of doing it is by degrading the role of the men. Everything thus becomes relative.

Travel is another theme in this collection. A man and woman travel to Morocco in "Hassan's Tower". A man and woman cross the Alps in a small car in "Crossing the Alps". A woman goes searching for her wacko ex-husband in "The Caves of God". And a widow takes a vacation in rural Britain in "The Merry Widow".

Given the three themes that I have identified, I have come to the conclusion that this is a collection of short stories about extraordinary snippets of the lives of these women who otherwise lead quotidian lives. Every short story gives a slice of the unusual, not the normal. People are in the middle of travel, a vacation, a health crisis, a romance, and so on. This is a collection of short stories about uncommon occurrences in the lives of common women.

That being said, I didn't enjoy the book as much as others. Perhaps the aspect of the book that I found unsatisfactory has nothing to do with the content; instead, it has something to do with the genre itself. Due to the fact that these are short stories, there are plenty of things that are left unsaid. Instead of having a smooth character development that peaks in the middle of the story arc, the short story genre immediately throw the reader right in the middle of the action. Sometimes, that is shocking. Maybe it is a personal preference of mine, but I would love to know more details about these characters, except I only have 20 pages. Thus, the probability of these characters settling in my head, allowing me to ruminate on them, is rather low.

However, I still like the fact that I have read them. After all, variation is good. But I won't read short stories again soon, as I want my novel. I am giving this 3 out of 5 stars.

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Sep 25, 2011 Allyson rated it 2 of 5 stars

This is very English in tone and while her writing is exquisitely beautiful and evocative, these stories are exceedingly melancholy and a little boring. No great insights, just rather rambling along. Also 2/3 of the stories are from the late 1960s and 1970s. Even when they were more recent they still had the same feel.
I was rather anxious to end it, never a good sign.
I feel I missed it's special value however, as if I should have lingered and read only one a day, or night rather than rush thro...more

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Jul 06, 2011 Mam rated it 3 of 5 stars

I like this collection of Drabble's stories a great deal. They span several decades of the author's writing life. Drabble's style is consistent throughout the decades. What grows and deepens, I think, is her world view or, better said, the world view of her female characters. One of the many reasons I like Drabble's work is her presentation of contemporary women striving and struggling in ways familiar to a female reader.
Drabble is a brilliant novelist. I think her short stories are less satisfy...more

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Mar 06, 2011 Cynthia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-read-in-2011

I’m a Drabble fan and these stories didn’t let me down. They are mostly set in the English countryside beginning from the ‘70’s to the turn of the century. They are quiet and unassuming. Something in Drabble's style reminds me of Barbara Pym’s writing. I felt like I was sitting in a sunny back porch with a cup of tea alternately reading and talking to a long time friend. The stories are each marked with the date they were written and they’re set out in chronological order which enabled me to wat...more

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May 10, 2013 Lorri rated it 3 of 5 stars

These short stories are organized by publication date and (presumably in step with the author) the main characters age. I found the first stories to be dreary and depressing-unhappy relationships, feeling stiffled. Then, as the characters aged, they became stronger and more confident. The situations they found themselves in became creative and challenging. I don't know if this was a product of the time they were written, or of changes in how the author saw herself, but I'm glad I persevered to f...more

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May 23, 2011 Julie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Lucky me for receiving this as a GoodReads First Reads giveaway. Otherwise, I may have gone my entire reading life without discovering Margaret Drabble.

Three of the stories, in particular, stood out for me: "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" (one man's attempts at getting noticed at "a party where no one gets introduced"), "Hassan’s Tower" (a honeymooning couple realizes some at times uncomfortable truths about themselves), and the title story (a woman's determination to smile through life's difficultie...more

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May 17, 2011 Marla rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: first-reads, arcs, for-review, books-read-in-2011, short-stories

Prior to spotting this book on Goodreads First Reads and entering into the giveaway that I eventually won, I had never heard of Margaret Drabble. That is a real shame, because she has such a collection of vivid short stories that are easy to relate to on a human level. I would have loved to read her work in my British literature courses when I was just starting out in my major. Sadly, I was only introduced to her writing this year.

Each story sets about examining a particular person. There are a...more Prior to spotting this book on Goodreads First Reads and entering into the giveaway that I eventually won, I had never heard of Margaret Drabble. That is a real shame, because she has such a collection of vivid short stories that are easy to relate to on a human level. I would have loved to read her work in my British literature courses when I was just starting out in my major. Sadly, I was only introduced to her writing this year.

Each story sets about examining a particular person. There are a wide array of protagonists, from a lonely man at a party to a jaded English literature teacher. Each one has a different view of the world, a different problem, a different joy, and a different sadness. Ranging from the year 1964 to the year 2000, the stories only progress in the amount of detail found within and the attention paid to the characters they concern.

I found that I enjoyed most of the stories and their protagonists, though there were a few that I just couldn't quite understand. I found that in the case of a story entitled “The Caves of God” left me unsure as to the motive of the protagonist, Hannah Elsevir, a Nobel prize-winning woman who becomes so obsessed with maintaining an unremarkable nature that she becomes obsessed with finding out the whereabouts of her ex-husband, Peter, who has had his name slandered in a recent diary publication. I couldn't quite understand how she transitioned from trying to take on a mousy appearance and marking his name off of public records to tracking him down in foreign countries. She did find peace with her findings, but it still struck me as very odd.

Perhaps my favorite story was “The Dower House at Kellynch: A Somerset Romance.” It was not at all what I expected when I first read the title. There was a greater depth to the story that I really enjoyed realizing. If you ever have the chance to read it for yourself, I recommend it. Figuring out what the “romance” actually referred to was a pleasant surprise and made for a thought-provoking read. The protagonist, Emma Watson, may be seen as a calculating sort of character when her motives are taken into account, but the reason behind her motives is a unique one that made her an even more interesting character.

Overall, I really enjoyed my introduction to Margaret Drabble. I have no regrets about entering the giveaway that allowed me the chance to read this collection. I honestly don't know if I would ever have come across them in another way.(less)

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Oct 11, 2012 Wren Kiluk rated it 4 of 5 stars

One can't help but admire Drabble's craft but few of her women are actually compelling characters, most have too much stiff upper lip to be really interesting. The first story, 'Hassan's Tower', appears in other collections but it is not as interesting as the title story which is truly appalling and therefore more readable. When Drabble actually breaches her own good taste and creates a woman with bodily functions the stories allow the reader to empathize and recognize pieces of her own heart.

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Aug 14, 2011 For Books' Sake rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"Drabble adds a warm, wry sheen of glamour to life’s normalcies simple by drawing our attention to them and this collection will hopefully help her to become accessible to a whole new generation of readers." (Excerpt from full review of A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman at For Books' Sake)

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Mar 16, 2012 Jayne Ryan rated it 4 of 5 stars

I don't normally like short stories unless they have a common theme or thread throughout. Part of my bonding with her characters in these stories comes from the fact that I'm female and can empathise with the idiosyncratic 'Englishness' of it all. I enjoyed it immensely but I think more so because I've been familiar with Drabble's writing most of my adult life. This serves as a lovely complement to her whole body of work.

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Jan 03, 2013 Jerry Delaney rated it 4 of 5 stars

Drabble seems to have stopped writing short stories in the early 1970s to concentrate on novels. I understand her decision in that I think her novels are better, but that is not meant to demean the stories. They are very good - it's just that the novels are great. Her fine intelligence is at work here, and her ability to slip into the minds of diverse characters. Recommended.

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Feb 06, 2012 Renee rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012

These are the collected short stories of this award winning English author. Women are the main characters, for the most part. The stories focus on the solitary lives of these characters, in telling vignettes about modern life. The writing seems effortless, so is a joy to read. Makes me want to read some more collections of short stories and put some effort into writing my own.

I found it odd that this hardcover book was not stitched together. It has a heat pressed binding.

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Aug 15, 2011 Laurel rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is my first Margaret Drabble (my Kindle suggested I read her after I finished Edna O'Brien). I found these stories clever in the way that Alice Munro (who is my hero!) is clever and quirky and takes her characters on unexpected twists and turns. Highly recommend and hope that someone can recommend another MD book for me to read!

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Jun 28, 2011 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was a collection of some of the author's short stories. I would like to read one of her complete novels to see if I liked it as much as I did the short stories. Her writing style is one I like-as if she is talking just to you. I would like to see if I would still be looking for more after reading as I did in the short stories.

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Jun 07, 2011 Carol rated it 5 of 5 stars

Some amazing work here from the '60 through 2000. Very British ("She never ran out of sugar or lavatory paper or cellotape...") but also here-and-there devastating ("For twenty minute, she spoke and bled."). If I taught a short-story class I would use "Faithful Lovers" as an example of an almost perfect story.

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Dec 31, 2011 Jennifer rated it 3 of 5 stars

I liked the stories from the 60s more, they are jaunty and the protaganists are uncomfortable. She has some of the most pithy poetic ways to describe, say, a paricular man, and I want to apply to to my eventual portrait of a certain translucent skinned drinker.

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Aug 23, 2011 Gabrielle rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recommended to Gabrielle by: NPR

This is the first time I've managed to read a book of short stories all the way through, and I'm really glad I did. Reading these stories felt like glimpsing into different living room windows. This collection is especially fascinating due to the passage of time - the stories are in chronological order and span 4 decades. Highly recommended.

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Mar 16, 2013 Emilie rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Like many romantics, they habitually connived with fate by remembering the names of restaurants and the streets they had once walked along as lovers. Those who forget forgot, he said to her later, and those who do not forget will meet again.

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Jan 05, 2013 Julie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: short-stories

A true artist at work in these carefully constructed short stories. It is unusual for me to have felt like I fully inhabited the world in a short and Drabble pulls that off. This collection spans throughout her career, and the protagonists age as she does.

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Oct 22, 2011 Alice rated it 4 of 5 stars

Breathtaking and beautiful writing. Typically no-nonsense British. I loved it. Margaret Drabble is known for her novels; I had never read her short stories. These are jewels. Read them and luxuriate in the prose written by a master.

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Apr 08, 2011 Rachel rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: own, giveaways

I've never been big on reading short stories but I really enjoyed this collection. I found myself genuinely interested in each character and was emotionally invested in their lives. A lot of the stories had love as their central theme but each explored it in a different way so that it never felt redundant. I plan on reading more from Margaret Drabble in the future and recommend this book to anyone interested in a light and interesting read.

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Aug 12, 2011 Suzette rated it 3 of 5 stars

If you like Margaret Drabble, then you will want to read her complete short stories. I found the stories from the 60s to be quaint and stilted. The stories from the 70s and later contained several gems,including the title "A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman" and "The Merry Widow."

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