Mending Fences

Mending Fences is a collection of short fictional stories, four of them award-winning, about relationships between ordinary people. Our lives are often filled with regrets over the past – harm we have done to others or missed opportunities to do the right thing. Many of these tales reflect a sense of retribution or reparation – making things right: a middle-aged gay son suddenly appears at his mother´s door after many years of estrangement; a woman dying of cancer seeks to reconcile with a once-favourite aunt; a recently widowed woman discovers a precious gem in a packing case, causing her to recall her pain at the loss of her first love.


But life also brings us lighter moments of fun and enjoyment, and other stories are in a less serious vein: an elegant elderly couple enjoy dancing at a supper club; an ad in the Companions Wanted column has comic results; and two twenty-somethings seek their Mr. Right.


Thus, Mending Fences weaves together serious and lighter experiences in an imitation of life.