The Gifts of War

by Margaret Drabble · 2011 · 44 pages

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In these two stories of lives colliding, a mother buying a birthday gift has her dreams destroyed, and a honeymoon leads to an unexpected epiphany.

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adult
Length
short · 44 pages
Form
short stories

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