First published 1944
Victoria Lincoln assembles a collection that moves between the drawing room and the nursery, capturing moments when lives pivot on small failures. A child faces the sting of jealousy and insecurity. Marriages crumble under the weight of unmet expectations. Family servants navigate the peculiar intimacy of domestic life. An English vicar uncle watches his one opportunity slip away through his son's actions. An artist shapes his Galatea, molding more than clay. Lincoln draws these vignettes with precise strokes, mixing verse with prose, autobiography with invention. Each piece reveals how ordinary defeats shape us, how grace emerges from disappointment. The stories breathe with quiet humor and sudden poignancy, finding beauty in life's smaller disasters.
Genres: literary-fiction, 20th-century, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Period: 20th-Century, 21st-Century
206 pages · Paperback · Createspace Independent Pub