Valentin Fuster
Author of Hurst's the heart
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Works by Valentin Fuster
The Heart Manual: My Scientific Advice for Eating Better, Feeling Better, and Living a Stress-Free Life Now (2010) 7 copies
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Lost and found. Two sides of the same coin. But which is which?
A brilliant little story that is amusing, but also unsettlingly dark, and not at all what I first expected.
The scene is set in Waitrose (an upmarket British supermarket), where a woman’s shopping includes organic apples, the Guardian (a serious, liberal newspaper) and Kalamata olives. All very pleasant and either realistic or clichéd, depending on your opinion of Waitrose and its customers.
The woman walks away from her show more trolley (cart) to find bouquet garni for the soup, and comes back to find “an almost embarrassingly beautiful child” in the little child seat.
Image: Cherubic child, by Mabel Lucie Attwell
From there, the story carefully progresses through several moods and genres, leaving the reader as unsure as the woman and those around her.
Ultimately, it’s a clever reworking of a common folklore theme, shaken up and turned on its beautifully golden-curled head.
See also
I read this in Paul Merton's entertaining anthology Funny Ha Ha, which I reviewed HERE.
It was originally in Ali Smith's collection, The First Person and Other Stories, which I later read and reviewed, with disappointment, HERE.
A more disturbing story on a similar theme is Dorothy Haynes' Changeling, which I reviewed HERE, in her collection Thou Shalt Not Suffer A Witch. show less
A brilliant little story that is amusing, but also unsettlingly dark, and not at all what I first expected.
The scene is set in Waitrose (an upmarket British supermarket), where a woman’s shopping includes organic apples, the Guardian (a serious, liberal newspaper) and Kalamata olives. All very pleasant and either realistic or clichéd, depending on your opinion of Waitrose and its customers.
The woman walks away from her show more trolley (cart) to find bouquet garni for the soup, and comes back to find “an almost embarrassingly beautiful child” in the little child seat.
Image: Cherubic child, by Mabel Lucie Attwell
From there, the story carefully progresses through several moods and genres, leaving the reader as unsure as the woman and those around her.
Ultimately, it’s a clever reworking of a common folklore theme, shaken up and turned on its beautifully golden-curled head.
See also
I read this in Paul Merton's entertaining anthology Funny Ha Ha, which I reviewed HERE.
It was originally in Ali Smith's collection, The First Person and Other Stories, which I later read and reviewed, with disappointment, HERE.
A more disturbing story on a similar theme is Dorothy Haynes' Changeling, which I reviewed HERE, in her collection Thou Shalt Not Suffer A Witch. show less
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