Ways of Telling
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"Ways of Telling isn't like any other book. Is it social reportage, the eye at the keyhole, the ear at the door? It is its own thing."—Margaret Atwood
"Fractured, haunting, intimate and totally original, Ways of Telling knocked the breath out of me. It's dangerously exact, wilfully ambitious, wild in its scope and perfect in its precision." —Olivia Laing
From the author of the UK bestseller Bertie, May & Mrs Fish comes an extraordinary new collection of unforgettable stories. As a bystander at Princess Diana's funeral, a fan at a James Brown concert, a passenger on a Welsh bus and a patient in a hectic hospital, Xandra Bingley's vivid portraits of everyday experience remind us of the fleeting and mysterious transience of life.
"A sharp, wise and knowing eye, combined with a rare delicacy of prose — this is unlike anything else you will have read. An absolute treat." — Andrew Marr
Xandra Bingley
Xandra Bingley ran away from her farm and horses aged seventeen. She went to London to MI5 to save England from communist invasion and then travelled to America with an English poet. In Ireland she started renovations on a lovely house in Co. Kildare. In England again she failed as a law student and joined Ian Hamilton's literary magazine The New Review, moving on to Jonathan Cape. She ran her own Literary Agency for fifteen years. A ride across the farm led to her first published book.
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