Super Girl ( Editura: Outlet - carte limba engleza, Autor: Ruth Thomas ISBN 9780571230631 )

Piognant as well as funy, Ruth Thomas's new story collection charts the difficulties people have when faced with the need to change. Delicately poised on the cusp of melancholy, fragility and follu, her stories offer a fresh take on the contradictions of human nature.

A young mother is alienated by the small talk of a 'new mums' coffee morning ; a poet achieves success after thirty years of writing only to discover that nobody understands what he is saying ; a father loses his shoes at a children's party ; a grandfather shares the pain and pleasure of his eightieth birthday with his baby grand-daughter ; and in the title story, a sensible younf woman who everyone thinks of as a 'super girl' has her reputation thrown into jeopardy when an unexpected caller arrives at her babysitting job.