Lynne Truss is a celebrated author, screenwriter, columnist, and broadcaster. Truss is the writer of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the bestselling book on punctuation Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Her new novel is A Shot in the Dark.One of the author's six favorite seaside tales, as shared at The Week magazine:
'At the Bay' by Katherine Mansfield (1922; published in The Garden Party and Other Stories).Read about the other entries on the list.
I had read a lot of Katherine Mansfield before I even started on Virginia Woolf, and I've always preferred Mansfield. This long story, set near her native Wellington, New Zealand, is wonderfully atmospheric and sensuous, and alive to sensations — especially to those of swimming. The morning sea in the antipodes is evidently more inviting than the green, choppy stuff we get on the south coast of England.
--Marshal Zeringue
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