Vain Shadow Gift Wrapping:Cambridge Imprint paper without the benefit of hindsight

without the benefit of hindsight

ISBN 9781903155028

Elizabeth Berridge

Although presented as a story

It isn’t fair that they should be tied all their lives and have children

Vain Shadow Gift Wrapping:Cambridge Imprint paper without the benefit of hindsightPREFACE BY CELIA ROBERTSON 234pp ISBN 9781910263020 This very funny black comedy about a family gathering for a funeral was written in the early 1950s, put away in a drawer for ten years, and then published in 1963. By the time it appeared, women writers had begun to express themselves with more freedom and confidence than ever before writes Celia Robertson in her Persephone Preface. So it was that it came out in the same year as Sylvia Plaths The