What does it feel like to be a child? Learning how to negotiate withthe unpredictable adult world, learning how to pick a path throughlife´s traps and hazards, learning when the time has come to put awaychildish things. The writers of these short stories show us the worldas seen from the far side of the child-adult divide, a gap that issometimes small, and sometimes an unbridgeable chasm. This collectioncontains stories by John Updike, Graham Greene, William Boyd, SusanHill, D. H. Lawrence, Saki, Penelope Lively, Bernard MacLaverty, Frank Tuohy, and Morley Callaghan.
