Evidence of Old Repairs | Granta

  • Published: 02/05/2013
  • ISBN: 9781846275227
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Evidence of Old Repairs

Jessica Francis Kane

Sarah takes a holiday to London with her husband and their teenage daughter. Thrown together in the uneasy otherworld of tourists, the family are forced confront their lack of familiarity with one another.

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The Author

Jessica Francis Kane is the author of Rules for Visiting and The Report (both published by Granta). She is also the author of two story collections, Bending Heaven (Chatto & Windus, 2003) and This Close (Graywolf, 2013). She lives in New York City.

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