Daughters of Passion

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.Her story was this: she had been an orphan, her mother probably a whore. Brought up by nuns, she had lost her faith, found another, fought for it and been imprisoned. This was inexact but serviceable.On the twelfth day of her hunger strike, Maggy is unable to tel...