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From the groundbreaking author of They comes an “elegantly slender account of a love affair, a death, and a mystery.” (Janice Elliott, The Sunday Telegraph)
"I did not, my dear Francis, intend to have an affair with her." Twenty years ago, Cassandra began sleeping with a married woman named Anne. Although begun in passion, their entanglement ended abruptly, shortly after which Anne killed herself. Was Anne beyond help, or did Cassandra bear some responsibility for her lover’s demise? Haunted by her memories of their time together, and finally able to tell her story, Cassandra unburdens herself in a letter to her dear friend Francis.
Originally published in 1984, and closely based on a tumultuous and ultimately tragic relationship the author had with a married woman two decades earlier, The Shelf is a deeply moving work of autofiction—“Though I shall deny it, of course,” Kay Dick told a reporter shortly after its publication. Written with a “quiet elegance” (Elaine Feinstein, The Times), it’s a “tour de force” that places Dick “in the same category of sensibility as Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield and Ford Madox Ford” (Gillian Freeman).
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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren
After being educated in Geneva and London, Kay Dick (1915-2001) found herself mixing with a “louche set” that included Ivy Compton-Burnett, Stevie Smith, and Muriel Spark. At the age of twenty-six, she became the first female director of an English publishing house, and from the 1940s through the ’60s, she and her long-term partner, the novelist Kathleen Farrell, were at the heart of the London literary scene. She published seven novels—including They, which is also published by McNally Editions—a study of the commedia dell’arte, and two volumes of literary interviews.
Eley Williams is the author of the short story collection Attrib.—which won both the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize—and the Betty Trask Award-winning novel The Liar’s Dictionary. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Oxfordshire.
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