Francesca Steele

Two wide-ranging collections of short stories by and about women

Grand Union by Zadie Smith and Your Duck is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg reviewed

issue 19 October 2019
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  • Grand Union

    Zadie Smith

    Hamish Hamilton, pp. 256, £20

  • Your Duck is My Duck

    Deborah Eisenberg

    Europa Editions, pp. 240, £12

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