Moving on

Barbara Ludman

Description

A collection of ten witty, tightly written and upbeat short stories about people making new beginnings after significant losses (the death of their partners, home invasions, etc) set in the upmarket northern suburbs of Johannesburg, like Parkview. Filled with memorable characters and incidents.
Barbara Ludman writes about loss and moving on with an alluring wit and ease. This is the best kind of fiction: profound philosophy rendered with a sure, light touch.
-Mark Gevisser
Barbara Ludman's droll, sparkling dialogue makes this collection sing. Moving, often hilarious stories about finding new connections, jobs and joy after the loss of a partner.
-Jo-Ann Bekker, author of Asleep, Awake, Asleep
Ludman's characters are entertainingly bold, and her fresh stories about life's vagaries are engrossing page-turners. As each story hits its intriguing climax, you're genuinely sorry to say goodbye. A tasty collection. 
-Anne Schlebusch, author of Bloomer

Sujets

• Littérature Africaine
• Littérature Africaine
• Romance
• Romance LGBT
• Short story
• Short Stories
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Modjaji Books
• Date de parution: 13 avril 2024
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781991240309
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Pubîshed în 2024 by Modjajî Books Cape Town, South Arîca © Barbara Ludman

www.modjajîbooks.co.za

Thîs îs a work o fictîon. A the characters, organîsatîons and events portrayed în thîs nove are eîther products o the author’s îmagînatîon or are used fictîtîousy.

A rîghts reserved. No part o thîs pubîcatîon may be reproduced, stored în a retrîeva system, or transmîtted în any orm or by any means, eectronîc, mechanîca, photocopyîng, recordîng or otherwîse, wîthout the prîor permîssîon o the pubîsher.

eISBN 978-1-991240-30-9

Edîtor: Pat Tucker Cover desîgn: Jesse Breytenbach Text desîgn and ayout: Lîz Gowans

For Aryn and Ann, and the TLC

Contents

1. Bridging the gap 2. The bread takes a while to prove – or, Nothing is forever 3. Alone 4. The housing crisis 5. Bogey and me 6. Soaring lessons 7. Endgame 8. The reboot 9. An ordinary Sunday 10. The workshop

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Bridging the gap

Esther

It was the comment on peas that dîd ît. “He saîd: ‘You haven’t finîshed your peas.’ There were seven peas et on the pate.” “You counted them?” “Maybe sîx peas. How many peas can you eat? I’d had enough. But he’d paîd or my mea and expected me to finîsh ît. And be grateu. Grateu! I coud buy and se hîm sîx tîmes over.” Esther had been on her own or a year when she gave în to her rîends’ matchmakîng attempts. They dîdn’t have to work very hard to convînce her. She hadn’t been entîrey abandoned to her our-bedroom home pus cottage/ guestroom. One daughter was overseas but another was ony ha an hour away, and her son was even coser, but her chîdren, et’s ace ît, had theîr own îves. There were brîdge essons – a women – and she asted two weeks. She trîed cookery casses, as î she needed to earn anythîng she dîdn’t aready know, but that was a women as we. “There’s nothîng wrong wîth women,” she tod her rîend Sharon. They were waîtîng or the waîter to brîng theîr creamy herbed wîd mushroom gaettes beore the sun hît theîr tabe and they had to move, or the umbrea had to be shîted, or both. “I agree,” saîd Sharon. Definîtey, în Sharon’s case. She’d come out as a esbîan ten years earîer and saîd she’d never been happîer.

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