On an East Coast island, full of tall pine moaning with sea gusts, Delilah moves into a cottage by the shore. The neighbours gossip as they watch her cleaning, black hair tied back in a white rubber band. They don't like it when she plants a garden out front - orange-red Carpinus caroliniana and silvery-blue hosta. Very unusual, they whisper. Across the driveway lives a man who never goes out. Delilah knows he's watching her too and she likes the look of him, but perhaps life is too complicated already...
Sara Marchant is a published author of short stories. She lives in the high desert of Southern California with her husband, two dogs, a goat, and five chickens.
Title: The Driveway Has Two Sides (Fairlight Moderns)
Author: Marchant, Sara
ISBN: 9781912054428
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Publisher: Fairlight Books
Publication Date: 2018-07-11
Number of Pages: 135
Weight: 0.1000 kg
'This deft, devourable novella is one part Barbara Pym, one part Patricia Highsmith, and all parts Sara Marchant.' - Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of Hausfrau; 'This story unfolds beautifully, with a balance of mystery and wry insight that keeps you turning the pages.' - Mary Yukari Waters, author of The Laws of Evening; 'Sara Marchant is the kind of writer we need for these times: her scathing intelligence, refusal to engage with sentimentality, and generous, inclusive view of what makes people's lives matter restores my belief in the power of story to change the world.' - Emily Rapp, author of The Still Point of the Turning World; 'With radiant humanity, humour, and spiky powers of observation, Sara Marchant illuminates the wild and enigmatic nature of attraction.' - Mary Otis, author of Yes, Yes, Cherries