SIX women who meet regularly around a kitchen table have written a collection of their own short stories. The Leap Year, the first offering from the Contemporary Women Writers’ Club, is designed to promote women’s writing.
It features tales of blood and lust in Argentina, grief in Montreal, passionate reunions in New York, a car-jacking in South Africa, a ghostly visit in London, a honeymoon accident in Kenya and a divine encounter in Hong Kong.
Each story deals with a particular life stage and the "leaps" are sometimes physical or emotional and always psychological with common themes of self-recognition, re-evaluation and reinvention.
The six are Lucy Cavendish, Miranda Glover, Rachel Jackson, Anne Tuite-Dalton and Jennie Walmsley, who all live in South Oxforshire, and Alexa Hughes Wilson, an American who moved to Mrs Glover, 41, who was raised in Henley and attended Gillotts School, has a background in arts publishing and has written three novels.
She said: "I had an excellent English teacher at Gillotts and she said to me when I was 14 that I should be a writer.
"The Leap Year has been an amazing experience, a lot of hard work and a fantastic result.
"We are very proud of it and intend to write more collections together."
Published on 24 November 2009
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