num_pages: 192
description: From the pen of Mick Jackson, author of The Underground Man and Five Boys , come these ten acclaimed tales. Featuring undertakers, dark forests, resurrected butterflies and a singularly mean-spirited horse, the stories are nevertheless rooted in the realistic and all too recognisable world of retirement, loneliness, and childhood boredom.By turns funny, scary and heartbreaking, they are always illuminating, and further evidence of one of the most original and brilliant imaginations in contemporary fiction.
language: English
title: Ten Sorry Tales
titlecomplete: Ten Sorry Tales
genres: Literature, Childrens, Comedy, Fiction, Short Stories, Horror, Humor, Fantasy, Short Story Collection, British Literature
ratings_count: 1179
publisher: Faber & Faber