Pangbourne - a love affair with a gorilla Find!

Sharply observed human nature, elegantly and concisely expressed, the short stories in Jane Gardam's The People on Privilege Hill are a delight to read. The setting for one of them, Pangbourne, is a zoo-park (Howletts Wild Animal Park?), not mentioned by name, but clearly recognisable from the narrative. Pangbourne is in fact an aging gorilla, who becomes the object of a lonely woman's affections. Like the other stories in this collection, it is a story full of sardonic wit, cleverly mixed with a gentle tenderness.

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/People-Privilege-Hill-Jane-Gardam/dp/0701177993

28 February 2010 from Julia

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