Dancing On the Outskirts

Here is a wonderful collection of short stories by the writer known for ''the Mackay vision, suburban - as kitsch, as unexceptional, and yet as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house, its threshold radiant with tiling and stained-glass birds of paradise encased in leaded lights'' - Guardian.

Shena Mackay, who first came to fame before the age of twenty with two novellas, is t...