This, the latest, anthology feels like a deviation from the style of the earlier ones - but that doesn't lessen the quality of the collection or each of the stories in the group of 17.
We start with the atmospheric telling of a dream-like narration of a suicide by drowning - but within that we learn something of that has brought them to this.
The next tells of an old man's journey through life and his search for something from his childhood for one last time.
So the collection has what would normally be very dark theme - in fact "The End" would be an appropriate subtitle for this collection. But most of the stories aren't dark and they don't, in anyway shape or form, glamorise death.
As Linda Was Buying Tulips, About Time and Traffic are complete steps away from the theme and You May As Well Give Up Trying To Make Something Of Yourself makes you wonder and left me later thinking "What did happen there?".
My real favourite deals in life and death in a manner I've never read before and left me wondering about Ego and the Surgeon - In Rehearsal by Sarah Evans.
Each story can be read in a coffee break and give you something to think about and waiting for another cuppa.
The collection returns to suicide by drowning but the circle we have come does not fully close itself.
A really spellbinding collection of stories once again with appeal to even those of us who don't like dark themes.
Publisher - Unthank Books
Genre - Adult short story anthology
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