The Lilac Bowl - Wyllie, Melanie
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The Lilac Bowl, Melanie Wyllie's third collection of short stories, is set in post-war Britain as it moves out of drab austerity into a new era of cosmopolitan affluence. With characteristic wit, imagination and empathy, Melanie Wyllie depicts a set of characters as diverse as the range of situations in which they find themselves. Some are caught up in the pursuit of better things ('Snare', 'Charmed', 'A Trip to the Moon', 'The Lilac Bowl'), some are haunted by the past ('But for the Grace of God', 'Shadows'), and some are trapped in an endless present ('Toccata', 'Heartburn', 'Griffin'). All…mehr

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The Lilac Bowl, Melanie Wyllie's third collection of short stories, is set in post-war Britain as it moves out of drab austerity into a new era of cosmopolitan affluence. With characteristic wit, imagination and empathy, Melanie Wyllie depicts a set of characters as diverse as the range of situations in which they find themselves. Some are caught up in the pursuit of better things ('Snare', 'Charmed', 'A Trip to the Moon', 'The Lilac Bowl'), some are haunted by the past ('But for the Grace of God', 'Shadows'), and some are trapped in an endless present ('Toccata', 'Heartburn', 'Griffin'). All of them are distinctive - for their ambition, frustration, nostalgia, solitude, and romance - as they each face the consequences of their own quiet choices
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'.