From the Book - First Morrow Paperbacks edition.
Foreword / by Tracy Chevalier --
My mother's wedding / Tessa Hadley --
Luxury hour / Sarah Hall --
Grace Poole her testimony / Helen Dunmore --
Dangerous dog / Kirsty Gunn --
To hold / Joanna Briscoe --
It's a man's life, ladies / Jane Gardam --
Since first I saw your face / Emma Donoghue --
Reader, I married him / Susan Hill --
The mirror / Francine Prose --
A migrating bird / Elif Shafak --
Behind the mountain / Evie Wyld --
The China from Buenos Aires / Patricia Park --
Reader, she married me / Salley Vickers --
Dorset gap / Tracy Chevalier --
Party girl / Nadifa Mohamed --
Transference / Esther Freud --
The mash-up / Linda Grant --
The self-seeding sycamore / Lionel Shriver --
The orphan exchange / Audrey Niffenegger --
Double men / Namwali Serpell --
Robinson Crusoe at the waterpark / Elizabeth McCracken --
Notes on the contributors --
A note on Charlotte Brontë.
