A Different Sound

Elegant, timeless, and riveting: an exciting anthology of short stories by mid-century women writers from Britain and Ireland--many being published in America for the first time <p/>These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms of the British Raj, domestic arrangements are rewritten, social customs are revoked and new freedoms are embraced. <p/>Selected and introduced by writer and critic Lucy Scholes, Senior Editor at McNally Editions, this collection places works from renowned women writers alongside recently rediscovered voices. <p/>Contains:

• "The Cut Finger" by Frances Bellerby
• "Summer Night" by Elizabeth Bowen
• "The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier
• "The Land Girl" by Diana Gardner
• "Listen to the Magnolias" by Stella Gibbons
• "Shocking Weather, Isn"t It?" by Inez Holden
• "The First Party" by Attia Hosain
• "Three Miles Up" by Elizabeth Jane Howard
• "The Skylight" by Penelope Mortimer
• "The Thames Spread Out" by Elizabeth Taylor
• "Scorched Earth Policy" by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Suffused with tension and longing, the captivating stories collected here from acclaimed as well as lesser-known women writers form a window onto a remarkable era of writing.