Stupid Stories for Tough Times

''Delightful!'' Reading these stories was such a distinct experience… the depths, the significance gently revealing itself – but in a way that made me want to go back and back and back again… these are beautiful, quirky bits of wisdom, and are continuing to haunt me in a gentle, understated way. In Stupid Stories for Tough Times a woodland spirit causes havoc in suburbia; a wayward uncle causes suspicion in the family; a ferocious troll seeks a friend; and Churchill''s statue goes walkabout in Westminster.In much the same vein as the short stories of W.S. Gilbert, whose oeuvre Crowther knows more about than perhaps anyone else, these tales of life and death are filled with the impossible and the improbable, the ordinary and the absurd. Together these so-called Stupid Stories for Tough Times are a tonic for our times – a search for sense in the strange and baffling times we live in, shot through, as all good stories should be, with humour and observational wit, with purpose, fate and dogs.

• | Author: Andrew Crowther
• | Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jul 03, 2024
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781804471111
• | ISBN-10: 1804471119