Companions.

Hesselholdt, Christina.

Companions. - 1 online resource (275 pages)

Intro -- Praise -- Title Page -- CONTENTS -- I. CAMILLA AND THE HORSE -- THE RAMBLE -- ANIMALS -- DEATH HOUSE -- CAMILLA AND THE HORSE -- CAMILLA AND CHARLES -- II. CAMILLA AND THE REST OF THE PARTY -- CAMILLA AND THE REST OF THE PARTY -- CAMILLA'S GPS -- IF ASHES HAD EYES -- NATURE AS A SERIES OF BACKDROPS -- THE FACE OF RUBBISH -- THE HOUSES AND THEIR BRILLIANT SUICIDE VICTIMS -- CHARLES REVISITED -- A THEATRE OF SOULS or THE ENTIRE PARTY -- RELOCATIONS -- III. THE PARTY BREAKS UP -- THE PATIENTS or CAMILLA AND ALMA'S EARLY YEARS -- CAN I APPROPRIATE HER MUM? -- WEDDING -- THE WORLD'S GO-GO POLE -- THE HAIR IN THE DRAWER -- NOT DIVIDING, SUBDIVIDING -- A TEA PARTY (AROUND CHARLES'S BED) -- FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH -- THE MARCH HARE -- IV. MAROONED -- ALONE IN PARADISE, WITH THE GARDENERS AND THE HEDGEHOG'S HEART -- BERNHARD'S SHOES, A NOTE -- THE BOSS -- THE VETERINARIAN'S BROTHER -- COLUMBIA, THREE LITTLE CHINAMEN (AND A WILD HAPPINESS) -- FRAGMENTS OF THE COMPANIONS' CONVERSATION IN THE GARDEN -- QUEEN OF THE JAMS WITH THE STICKY LEGS -- THE LIST OF ITEMS AND MATTERS ALREADY WRITTEN -- EEYORE WITH A STICK OF DYNAMITE IN HIS MOUTH -- ONCE THEY START TO LOOK -- MY TWO MAIN CHARACTERS -- BY THE BANKS OF THE BOOKCASE -- Acknowledgements -- Permissions -- About the Author -- Copyright.

Camilla, Charles, Alma, Edward, Alwilda and Kristian are a circle of friends hurtling through mid-life. Structured as a series of monologues jumping from one friend to the next, Companions is an exhilarating portrait of life in the twenty-first century.

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