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    "description": "Some New Ambush is the first collection of short stories from award-winning writer Carys Davies. Love, loss, birth, death, betrayal, madness \u2013 they all lie in wait for Davies\u2019s characters in their startlingly different worlds: a dry cleaner\u2019s shop in contemporary Chicago, a mining town in South Wales in the sixties, a lunatic asylum in nineteenth century northern England.\n\nShot through with wit and aching emotional poignancy, these stories tell of how we attempt to confront the things life throws in our path \u2013 often when we least expect them, and in places where we never thought to look. They tell of the mistakes we make along the way, and of how we try to deal with the whole difficult, unpredictable business.\n\nThere is the boy who steps into his best friend\u2019s clothes in a desperate bid to fulfil his dreams, the man who comes up with an amazing new invention to win the heart of the woman he loves, the bored young wife doomed to live on an island where everything is red, the middle-aged woman who finds a baby in the sand and passes it off as her own.",
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