Super Girl
Delicately poised on the cusp of melancholy, fragility and folly, Super Girl offers a fresh take on the contradictions of human nature.
- A young mother is alienated by the small talk of a ‘new mums’ coffee morning;
- a poet achieves success after thirty years of writing only to discover that nobody understands what he is saying;
- a father loses his shoes at a children’s party;
- a grandfather shares the pain and pleasure of his eightieth birthday with his baby grand-daughter;
- and, in the title story, a sensible young woman who everyone thinks of as a ’super girl’ has her reputation thrown into jeopardy when an unexpected caller arrives at her babysitting job.
“yet another superb demonstration by Thomas of the short-storyteller’s craft”
Lesley McDowell, Scotsman
“Thomas’s style is gentle and unshowy, wonderfully observant and often very funny about the rituals and mysteries of middle-class life”
Kate Saunders, The Times