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While Mary Burns is a writer of exceptional talent in the "social-realism" school, Shinny's Girls is a collection of stories which are more than just a "good read." All of the stories in this collection are about mothers and daughters, written from a sensitive and perceptive "post-feminist" point of view, examining the lives of the fictional characters in a way which is neither determined by, nor a reaction to, male consciousness or perceptions. These stories all re-examine the myths of mother-daughter relationships, both in the classical sense of "myth" (Gaia / Demeter / Persephone) and in the modern sense of "myth" (social lies about relationships).
Mary Burns's stories have been published in magazines throughout North America, as well as broadcast on the CBC and the BBC.
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Phillip Hartman
reviewed Shinny's Girls and Other Stories on April 25, 2012
Shinny's Girls and Other Stories
A blast from the past kicks off Veronica Heley's fourth Abbott Agency novel, False Pretences. Zander, first seen as an unwitting victim of an art-smuggling ring in False Picture, comes to the only person he can think of for help: English widow Bea Abbott, head of the Abbott Agency, a domestic staffing temp agency in London. As Bea is tired of saying, the agency doesn't "do" murder ' except that murder has a way of finding them!
Having recovered from a near-fatal blow after False Picture, a grateful Zander has taken to charity work as the office manager at the respected, but stodgy Tudor Housing Trust. While there, Zander runs across some financial chicanery and a thoroughly racist, scheming widow of a director. Mrs. Abbott to the rescue ' along with her little agency family of computer whiz kid Oliver Ingraham and project manager Maggie. Heley adds her usual humor, suspense, and knowledge of human nature to make False Pretences another fabulous read. As in False Step, the novel released immediately before this one, readers will almost immediately identify the guilty party, but the joy comes in following Mrs. Abbott's relentless pursuit of justice for Zander and the forces of good and discovering how they will track down and expose the culprit.
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