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SMILE AND OTHER STORIES (Arrow £5.99)
The title story came from my own experience as a waitress
at a Holiday Inn. I was pregnant, feeling sick and had to
wear a smiley badge whilst serving customers with scrambled
eggs. “What if?” I thought, “what if a young
girl finds herself serving her long lost father, who flirts
with her because he doesn’t know who she is, and all
the time she has to Smile?” What if? The question one
always asks onself. Another story, called “Making Hay”,
features a coach driver. He stuck in my head and refused to
go away, so much so that I had to write a whole novel for
him (“Driving in the Dark”).
From within the terrifory of ante-natal classes,and Volvo
cars, estate agents’ placards and threadbare marriages,
Deborah Moggach plots of map of modern relationships that
is unerringly acute, stylish and compellingly entertaining.
“Deborah Moggach can fit a complex idea onto a postage
stamp…the tales in “Smile” are ordinary
human crises, described tersely, compassionately, and with
a wit as dry as the Sahara.”
(Independent)
176 pages (November 1988)
Publisher: Penguin Books; ISBN: 0140100229
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