The Means of Escape
Her only story collection, assembled as she was dying, ranging from Tasmania to the supernatural.
Fitzgerald was assembling her only story collection when she died in 2000, and it appeared posthumously. The eight pieces range from a Tasmanian prison colony to a New Zealand parsonage to a ghost story set in a Suffolk church, and each turns on something withheld. They are as compressed as the novels, and just as dry.
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Jessica Francis Kane
Like her novels, the stories are precise and morally astute. They range across countries and ages, stretch from the historical to the supernatural , and are all mordantly funny.
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