Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! Howexciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen!But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young andinexperienced and travelling alone across Europe . . . or if you are a child from the wrong social class . . . or a singer without work andthe rent to be paid. Set in Europe and New Zealand, these nine stories by Katherine Mansfield dig deep beneath the appearances of life toshow us the causes of human happiness and despair.
