Book description
In 'Any Girl Can Be A Candykiss Girl!', the fashion house Candykiss
listens to its consumer, the little girls, not their parents. Their
pleasure is creating clothing for them to express themselves, never
mind how contemptuous the adult generation - sexually and emotionally
threatened - is of them.
In 'Tea with the Birds', the worst crime of all is to be an outsider
- wrong face, wrong clothes, wrong voice. And if you never raise your
eyes from the ground, you will be labelled a snob by your neighbours.
Yet when an isolated, lonely outcast meets a new tenant in the
building of bedsits where she lives, she learns to spread her wings.
In 'The G-SUS Gene', Oz 'Mad Dog' O'Shea is the Chosen One. Twenty
years ago, mankind experienced near-total wipeout. Now only he is left
to lead the quest for enlightenment.
Part of the Storycuts series, these three 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.
