Proceed With Caution - Wyllie, Melanie
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Following on from Safer Under the Stairs, Melanie Wyllie's acclaimed first volume of short stories published in 2014, Proceed with Caution features six new stories set in Britain, Europe and America spanning three decades from the end of the Second World War. In her signature cinematic/poetic style, Melanie Wyllie brings the lives of ordinary people into dramatic relief, from provincial housewives forced to cope with the meagreness of 1950s austerity and the constraints of social mores, to young artists and entrepreneurs struggling to carve a future for themselves in Europe's beleaguered…mehr

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Following on from Safer Under the Stairs, Melanie Wyllie's acclaimed first volume of short stories published in 2014, Proceed with Caution features six new stories set in Britain, Europe and America spanning three decades from the end of the Second World War. In her signature cinematic/poetic style, Melanie Wyllie brings the lives of ordinary people into dramatic relief, from provincial housewives forced to cope with the meagreness of 1950s austerity and the constraints of social mores, to young artists and entrepreneurs struggling to carve a future for themselves in Europe's beleaguered cities. Interconnecting themes explore hopes and dreams ('A Wedding Has Been Arranged', 'Proceed With Caution'), love and loss ('Once Upon A Time', 'The Wind Grows Colder'), devastation, compromise, regret ('Demons Seldom Sleep') psychotic obsession and ruthless ambition ('Scorn'), with understated sensitivity, empathy, shrewdness and wit. Safer Under the Stairs is available from Amazon as a Kindle e-book. Proceed with Caution can be ordered from all bookshops and online outlets.
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Autorenporträt
Melanie Wyllie was born in London in 1934. In 1939 her family home was requisitioned and she spent the War in the Sussex countryside. Her mother died of cancer in 1941, when Melanie was not quite seven. Kept at home she had no proper schooling until after the War when she was sent to boarding school in Brighton. From there she returned to London to study piano at the Royal Academy of Music. She made her home in London where she married and brought up a son and daughter, teaching the piano to dozens of children over nearly two decades. In 1991 Melanie moved to France and began writing seriously. Returning five years later, she resettled in London where she continues to write, amassing a number of short stories and novellas. She has just finished her first novel, 'Except in Spring'.