Go, Lovely Rose

A warm summer night. The moon shines down on the quiet houses and gardens. Everyone is asteep. Everyone except the man in pyjamas and stippers, standing on the wet grass at the end of his garden, watching and waiting... In these three short stories, H. E. Bates presents ordinary people like you and me. But as we get to know them better, we see that their feelings are not at all ordinary. In fact, what happens to them - and in them - is passionate, and even extraordinary. Could this happen to you and me? (Word count 8,065)