A S Byatt or Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (née Drabble; she's Margaret's sister) 1936-2023 was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer, popular in the nineties. Raised a Quaker she herself lived as an agnostic. I'd never read anything by her but attracted by the lovely cover of this hardback book I bought it somewhere some years ago (it came out in 1993) and I have recently read the three stories it contains. It's proper literature in that it not only tells a story but makes you think about life. There is humour in each story - enough to make you smile not to belly laugh. She clearly was a very skilled writer and perhaps merits more investigation.
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