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You can pick up a copy of JOTTINGS by veteran actress Lizz Smith for £2.99 when you buy the Times newspaper from WHSmith this week.

It is a collection of stories that Liz has written over the years. Sometimes they explore the darker side of life and what may occur out of the public gaze: a rich and lonely housewife neglects her child and the nanny subjects her charge to unpleasant and adult scenes; a man’s wish for fame catapults him into prison and mistaken notoriety; an unhappy wife loses her only friend and is haunted by her.

Other stories are more amusing: the sexy, man-eating woman who runs the mobile library: moving through the fog of 1950’s London with the help of a blind man; a scheming daughter who plans to take her mother’s money has a surprising comeuppance.

All in all Liz’s stories are unexpected, original and revealing of a writer who is fascinated by relationships and the barriers we erect between our public and private selves, and having seen some of her interviews I imagine this will be a great book.