Luxury Hour: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
By Sarah Hall
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A short story by Sarah Hall from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.
In ‘Luxury Hour’, a new mother encounters an old lover after her daily swim and inexplicably lies to him.
Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’s game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria. She is the prizewinning author of six novels and three short story collections. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award, Edge Hill Short Story Prize, among others, and the only person ever to win the BBC National Short Story Award twice.
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Luxury Hour - Sarah Hall
Luxury Hour
Sarah Hall
Logo MissingA short story from the collection
Reader,
I Married Him:
Stories inspired
by
Jane Eyre
edited by
Tracy Chevalier
Copyright
Published by The Borough Press
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
www.harpercollins.co.uk
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
Foreword © Tracy Chevalier 2016
Luxury Hour © Sarah Hall 2016
The moral rights of the authors have been asserted
Cover design by Heike Schüssler © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016
Jacket photograph © Dan Saelinger/Trunk Archive
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
This story is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical events and figures, are the works of the authors’ imaginations.
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