The Lucky Ones (short story collection)
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The Lucky Ones is a 2003
collection of short stories written by British author Rachel Cusk
. The book consists of five stories that are mainly concerned with the subject of family relationships, and are about five different people who are loosely connected to each other.
2003 in literature
The year 2003 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Peter Ackroyd - The Clerkenwell Tales*Atsuko Asano - No...
collection of short stories written by British author Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk
-Biography:Rachel Cusk was born in Canada in 1967 and spent much of her childhood in Los Angeles before finishing her education at St Mary's Convent in Cambridge. She read English at New College, Oxford, and has travelled extensively in Spain and Central America. She is the author of six novels....
. The book consists of five stories that are mainly concerned with the subject of family relationships, and are about five different people who are loosely connected to each other.
- "Confinement" concerns Kirsty, a young pregnant woman who is serving a life sentence after being wrongly convicted of arsonArsonArson is the crime of intentionally or maliciously setting fire to structures or wildland areas. It may be distinguished from other causes such as spontaneous combustion and natural wildfires...
and murderMurderMurder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...
. - "The Way You Do It" sees Martin, a male friend of one of Kirsty's legal representatives, spending a holiday in SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
with friends - and away from his young family for the first time - In "The Sacrifice", an unnamed woman (the sister of another of the solicitor's friends) recalls her broken marriage during a visit to her childhood home.
- "Mrs Daley's Daughter" concerns Barbara Daley (the mother of another of the friends), who fails to recognise and understand her daughter's postnatal depression.
- And in the final story, "Matters of Life and Death", Vanessa (one of Barbara's neighbours) discovers that her husband has been having an affair and is preparing to leave her; while a chance meeting prompts her to take an interest in Kirsty's case.