Rich in compassion, pathos and humour, Anne Youngson offers readers her dark take on human foibles, pettiness and rivalry in The Six Who Came to Dinner, a sparkling, unputdownable collection.
A vengeful dinner-party hostess serves more than just a roast to her six guests; the village cleaning lady who holds everyone’s house keys opens a car boot to find some unexpectedly dead contents; driven to distraction by his new young wife a man resorts to two grisly acts in a reimagining of a famous Irish ballad. Ripping away the polite façade of small communities, these stories of love, lies and revenge reveal the turbulent emotions and frustration that can lead seemingly good people to do bad things.