Midland V.S. Reid incorporates passages from Boccaccio's introductory

incorporates passages from Boccaccio's introductory description and imagines how the whole collection might have started

his grandson

Davies is one of the most remarkable in twentieth century letters

Ruth Padel

sensual and meditative

Midland V.S. Reid incorporates passages from Boccaccio's introductoryAn industrial accident in a wire factory and the chance discovery of a birth certificate. Church services held in a ruined swimming pool. An unidentified elephant skull. Midland tells the stories of three young women as they fight to find their feet amidst the accumulated rubble of the twentieth century. From the bombsites of the 1940s to the construction sites of the 1960s and the school halls and decaying tower blocks of the 1980s, Honor Gavin has