"Assassination of Margaret Thatcher" by Hilary Mantel. This book is published by Fourth Estate in 2014 and has 256 pages. The book contains 10 short stories.
'Sorry to disturb' is about a Pakistani (?) man trying to get too close to a British lady in Saudi Arabia. 'Comma' is about a young girl and her poor friend who try to peek into a house looking for a human being that looks like a comma. 'The long Qt' is about end of a marriage where the wife has 'Long QT syndrome', a heart disorder. 'Winter break' is about an accident where someone dies. Who? 'Harley street' is about a lesbian couple and the author. 'Offences against the person' is about the mistress of her father and pleasure. 'How shall I know you?' is about a biography writer's travel for a lecture and a small girl she meets and a favor by a stranger. 'The heart fails without warning' is about a teenaged girl who is obsessed to become thin, paper thin. 'Terminus' is about author noticing her dead father at Waterloo station. 'The assassination of Margaret Thatcher' is exactly about that and a lady who's house is used by the assassin.
Some of the stories are really short. Only a few pages. Most of the stories take place in England.
The language is flowery. Presentation is abstract. First three and last story are relatively good.
Either the stories are not very good and hence I did not like the book or they are too good for me to understand. I read the book while traveling. Had I read it in a quiet, I might probably have liked it more.
AVOID
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