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Short stories can be like photographs, catching people at some moment in their lives and trapping the memory for ever. There they are, smiling or frowning, looking sad, happy, serious, surprised … And behind those smiles and those frowns lie all the experiences of life, the fears and delights, the hopes and the dreams.

These sensitive and delicate stories give us pictures of ordinary people, and of the small, unimportant events that shape their lives. There is a garden party and a death, a desperate search for work, a journey alone across Europe by train, a meeting with a woman who has a dangerous secret. There are children being cruel, the feelings of a young girl at her first dance, the thoughts of a lady’s maid, and of a woman on a lonely farm in New Zealand.

We begin in an artist’s studio in Paris, with a young man who is a mystery to the women around him …