that one of Vee's songs was sung by Herman Berry on the Opry and that Vee would not return. "Over" (Soho Square III, Bloomsbury, 1990) - In Hampshire a father is struggling to wake up every morning as a nurse rouses him. Every two or three weeks his son arrives which perks him up. He thinks back to when a stoat plays amongst croquet hoops. Reception Michele Roberts writing in The Independent praises the collection: "a sampler displaying sophisticated examples of postmodern writing. The one unchanging element is the cool intelligence animating the stories. They are elegant and fastidious; we sense a writer who cares deeply about craft, taking her time to pick out words one by one and set them in tightly structured arrangements. The unfaltering control of the story-telling is matched by a lack of overt feeling, which is left, I think, to the reader to supply." Harpers & Queen writes "Rose Tremain is a writer of immense talent, one who is prepared to take risks, a daring walker on the high wire. In this superb collection of short stories she displays a dazzling versatility, taking us from Regency London to a hospital room in Hampshire to the battlefield of Agincourt in 1415...Rose Tremain's writing has a rare subtlety. And her imagination is extraordinary" References 1994 short story collections Sinclair-Stevenson books Fiction set in 1815