Wild Places

Wild Places is a gorgeous hardback collection of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman.

This beautiful new hardback edition captures Mansfield's most vivid and distinctive tales. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer whom Virginia Woolf envied. She transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories that are miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple. The shift of a heart, the beat of a moment, the changing of the light—within these stories, emotional universes are contained within mere glimpses.

Mansfield only lived to the age of 34, but in that time she wrote stories true to her indomitable spirit. A hundred years on from her death, Mansfield's biographer, Claire Harman, has curated this new selection to showcase the mastery of Mansfield's short story form in its full flight.

WITH A FOREWORD BY HELEN SIMPSON AND INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE HARMAN

'There is something rapturous about her work...she has the power to distil the apparently inconsequential into frozen moments laden with significance.' — Guardian

'Would you not like to try all sorts of lives—one is so very small—but that is the satisfaction of writing—one can impersonate so many people.' — Katherine Mansfield