Book description
In 'A Place in the Sun', Platinum is the beach everyone aspires to be
on - the exclusive Beach of Beaches. Only the most beautiful bodies
are permitted to enter. The old, the plain and the overweight have to
accept that they will never be allowed in, in spite of all the
facelifts, boob jobs and lipos that money can buy.
In 'Al and Christine's World of Leather', Christine and Candy meet
at Weightwatchers, and are soon firm friends. The knitting coven they
start turns into a thriving hand knitting business, with Candy the
designer, and Christine the workforce. But when Candy's designs turn
to leather, and Christine starts wondering what the big flap in the
trousers is for, their friendship starts to unravel...
In 'The Spectator', elderly Mr Meadows, a retired teacher - before
his profession was abolished - likes to take his morning walk past the
school, ignoring the signs saying SCHOOL: NO UNACCOMPANIED ADULTS,
because he innocently likes to watch the children playing. Surely
there can't be any harm in that?
Part of the Storycuts series, these short stories were previously
published in the collection Jigs & Reels.
Joanne Harris is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted
Chocolat
(made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny
Depp) and seven other bestselling novels. Her hobbies are listed in
Who's Who
as 'mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet
subversion'. She plays bass guitar in a band first formed when she was
16, is currently studying Old Norse, and lives with her husband and
daughter in Yorkshire, about 15 miles from the place she was born.
