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The Pink Ribbon (Storycuts)
A S Byatt
  • Published: 17 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448128358
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 46

The Pink Ribbon (Storycuts)

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A couple trying to cope with the fall-out from dementia welcome an upset guest into their home

It has been five years since Madeleine has recognised her husband James. As she drops deeper into her dementia, their lives fill up with the ghosts of her past and of Blitz-era London. When late one night his loneliness causes him to welcome a distressed young lady into their home, he must re-evaluate his perspective.

Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally published in the collection Little Black Book of Stories.
  • Published: 17 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448128358
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 46
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A S Byatt

A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

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