title: Tuesday Nights and Wednesday Mornings: A Novella and Stories
author:  Gwendoline Riley 
description: Manchester resident Riley writes fiercely and perceptively about the lives of young women in the British industrial town in this paperback original collection. The first piece, a novella titled "Sicknotes," is narrated by Esther, a 20-something autodidact who lives with her best friend, Donna. The two take delight in post-grunge irony, heavy drinking in public and in private, and inside jokes from literature ("Rise and shine, Raskolnikov," Donna tells Esther), but Esther's directionless frustration and self-consciousness feel as inescapable as the gray factory sky. The other stories, each only a few pages long, show Esther's contemporaries in similar wistful or destructive situations. In "Children," a woman's efforts to leave home are thwarted by her needy father; in the powerful "September," Jayne allows her older boyfriend, Daniel, to take advantage of her money and good will during a night out. The frustrating inertia of these characters, caught in pointless relationships and adolescent habits, is countered by Riley's passionate, gritty prose, which observes the ugly details of Manchester streets and bedrooms with loving originality. But when Esther, at the end of her story, determines she must "burst out of the cold bath... run downstairs in my widow's weeds," it is unclear whether her passion and angst will lead her to a fuller life or merely back to the pub. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Copyright© 2011 Jayne Fresina
  
  ISBN: 978-1-926950-45-7
  
  Cover Artist: LF Designs
  
  Editor: Kimberly Bowman
  
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  DEDICATION
  
  To Sam
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ENTANGLED
  
  A Private Collection
  
  Jayne Fresina
  
  Copyright © 2011
  
  Chapter One
  
  Two o’clock in the afternoon, Saturday, April 14th, 1888
  
  This wasn’t supposed to be happening. She wasn’t supposed to be in bed with
  her husba