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What the Hands Remember: Short Stories for Seniors: Twelve Full-Length Stories Set in Small-Town England, in Large Print
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Twelve full-length short stories set in small-town England, told slowly enough to matter, in large 16-point print for easy reading.
This is not a book of quick vignettes. Each of the twelve stories here runs long enough to hold a real character, a real turn, and a proper ending: the kind of read that fills an afternoon, not a coffee break.
Kathleen Rowe writes about people who have spent a lifetime getting good at something: a retired locksmith asked to open a box he fitted forty years ago, a bus driver who holds a stop ninety seconds too long, a retired midwife who quietly takes charge on a stranded train. In each story, a skill long taken for granted is asked to matter one more time.
The settings are familiar (allotments, swimming pools, church organ lofts, harbour walls, a back-street café) and the people in them are drawn with the kind of care that comes from paying attention for a long time.
Inside this collection- A locksmith who remembers every lock he ever cut, and the man who came back for one
- A church organist called back to play one more wedding
- A retired teacher who tells a well-known former pupil the plain truth
- A tide-reader who trusts her own eye over the printed chart
- A café cook who kept back the secret of his chilli, and finally tells it
Twelve stories in all, each complete on its own, so you can read one and set the book down, or keep going.
Printed in generous 16-point type with clean spacing: made to be read comfortably, without a magnifier or a lamp angled just right.
A thoughtful gift for a parent or grandparent who reads often, or a gentle way back into reading for anyone who has found smaller print, or thinner stories, more effort than they used to be.
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