Publisher's Synopsis
In ' A Little Light Flirtation', when a husband and wife on holiday quarrel one morning, everyone in the hotel hears. But what they don't hear are the thoughts running through her head. A walk around the sights of this foreign city could open up all sorts of possibilities...
In 'A Question of Choice', Kate hasn't had the smoothest ride in life. She had a miscarriage when she was three months' pregnant, and lost her partner of three years with it. When she returns to the UK from New York she is shocked to discover there is a rift between her and her friends who are happily settled with families. But Kate knows deep down that her life's direction is merely a question of choice.
In 'Flight of Fancy', for Joe, the mundanity of prison life is lifted by two things - his pet budgie, Beauty, and visits from his wife Miriam. He counts down the days until the end of sentence - dreaming of returning home and trying to remember how different life is there. But his homecoming won't be quite what he expects...
Part of the Storycuts series, these three short stories were previously published in the collection Summer Promise and Other Stories.
