- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (5 Nov 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571230636
- ISBN-13: 978-0571230631
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.6 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 754,279 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A poignant and funny collection of stories.
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Delicately poised on the cusp of melancholy, fragility and folly, 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 young woman who everyone thinks of as a 'super girl' has her reputation thrown into jeopardy when an unexpected caller arrives at her babysitting job.
Super Girl is Ruth Thomas's third story collection. It confirms her reputation as an intriguing and original voice in fiction.
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Even though none of the stories really stood out for me what I liked about this book was that all stories were good and strong and worked on their own.
I've recently become more interested in short stories and took out about ten collections from the library. This is the only collection I've managed to finish. Whilst in some of the other collections (won't mention authors) there were some outstanding stories it felt like the collections were too uneven, padded with a lot of average stories.
The strength about Ruth Thomas is that she uses ordinary settings and ordinary people and ordinary lives in a way that makes you feel sympathetic towards the characters. There are a few chance meetings, domestic issues, accidents and conflict within families, but there's always a light somewhere. As she suggests in one story about moving house: it's the tiny things that matters.
I've recently become more interested in short stories and took out about ten collections from the library. This is the only collection I've managed to finish. Whilst in some of the other collections (won't mention authors) there were some outstanding stories it felt like the collections were too uneven, padded with a lot of average stories.
The strength about Ruth Thomas is that she uses ordinary settings and ordinary people and ordinary lives in a way that makes you feel sympathetic towards the characters. There are a few chance meetings, domestic issues, accidents and conflict within families, but there's always a light somewhere. As she suggests in one story about moving house: it's the tiny things that matters.
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