Eleven Stories

To which Patrick White brings his immense understanding of the urges which lie just beneath the facade of ordinary human relationships, especially those between men and women.

A girl beset by her mother''s influence, who marries her father''s friend.

A young man strangely moved into marriage with a girl like the mother who never understood him.

A pretty market researcher who learns the ultimate details of love with a difference.

The collector of bird-calls who unwittingly records the call of a very human nature.