We Like Being Married

… a collection of twelve short stories by a travelled writer who has lived and worked in several countries. These tales range from the humorous and mildly satirical to the more serious stories with deeper concerns, but all are engrossing and entertaining.

"Abuela", the first in an alphabetical listing, won a prize in the national Bridport Arts competition several years ago, and five further stories have been published in

"Bete Noire", the erstwhile literary magazine produced through Hull University.

The author makes no apology for the fact that some of the stories are written from memories of two or three decades ago; modern Spain, for instance, might be very different from the country she lived in once, barely a decade free of Franco's repressive grip, but then, the ethics and values might not have changed substantially. The human heart does not alter in essence, and human behaviour varies only slightly with cultural difference and time. We have much in common, and so the reader will find, one way or another, in this collection.