Wild Places by Katherine Mansfield Hardback Book 9781784878146

A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfields most vivid and distinctive storiesKatherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple The shift of a heart the beat of a moment the changing of the light in these stories emotional universes are contained within glimpsesMansfield only lived to the age of 34 but in that time wrote stories true to her indomitable spirit A hundred years on from her death Mansfields biographer Claire Harman has created this new selection to show us the master of the short story form in full flightWITH A FOREWORD BY HELEN SIMPSON AND INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE HARMANThere is something rapturous about her workshe has the power to distil the apparently inconsequential into frozen moments laden with significance GuardianWould you not like to try all sorts of lives one is so very small but that is the satisfaction of writing one can impersonate so many people Katherine Mansfield