Darkness of Wallis Simpson

Wallis Simpson, the Twice-Divorced American Woman for Whom Edward Vlll Abdicated in 1936, Ended Her Life As the Prisoner of Her Lawyer Who Would Not Allow Anyone - Friend, Foe or Journalist - to Visit Her in Her Paris Flat. Rose Tremain Takes This True Story and Transforms It Into an Imaginative and Ironic Fiction. Her Thesis is That Wallis, Gaga and Bed-Ridden, Has Forgotten the King Who Gave Up an Empire for Love of Her. the Other Stories in This Magnificent Collection Range Over a Variety of Themes, Equally Original and Unexpected. an East German Border Guard, Redundant After the Berlin Wall Comes Down in 1989, Imagines That He Might Still Have a Purpose in Life He Tries to Reach Russia by Bicycling Across the Hostile Wastes of Poland. a Jilted Man Gets His Revenge. a Baby Grows Wings. a Character in an Impressionist Painting Escapes From His 'Frame' - or Does He? and There's a Christmas Story Set in a Seedy Hotel...