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Emma Gregory, with her impressive range of Anglophone accents—differentiated by age, region, country—is the ideal conduit for the ten nuanced, exquisite stories in Hadley's (The Past) latest collection. Loss of innocence looms large in many of the pieces, from a teenager's first sexual experience in "An Abduction" and a woman's discovery of her aging employer's horrifying past in "The Stain" to a daughter witnessing her mother's revealing exchange with a fo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More