What Cassandra saw

Sisters and mothers, housewives and witches, the prophetess of Kassandra and Queen Britt Bowdick - in the debut collection of stories, Gwen Kirby writes about women who often balancing on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Each story here presents surprises: the instructions for laying the tiles in the bathroom turn into a high tragedy, the review of the restaurant becomes a reflection on not the most successful marriage, and one of the most touching stories unfolds around the kugala kangaroo forgotten in the suitcase. Very bold, funny and invariably human texts of Kirby are built around women, but the experience of her heroines is universal: they are ready to confront the fury and love that they are capable of improper, and sometimes by the hostile world