David Lodge

It is often said that women’s magazines have kept the short story alive, and Good Housekeeping can certainly claim much of the credit, having regularly published short fiction by some of the greatest living writers from the 1920s to the present day.

David Lodge is widely regarded as one of the best writers of his generation. His many novels - written over a period of fifty years - are masterful satires, clever, satisfying and often hilarious, with memorable characters who live on long after each book is finished.

David Lodge’s skill as a short story writer is less well-known but just as expert. Good Housekeeping has brought these three stories together for our Modern Voices series. Years separate the stories from each other but each tale reveals David’s consistently sharp eye for human folly, his genius for irony and his warm affection for his characters.

David Lodge has also contributed an enlightening Afterword which puts all three stories in context.

## About the Author

David Lodge taught English Literature at the University of Birmingham for many years before retiring to focus on his writing full time. His novels have received the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice. He has also written stage plays, screenplays for TV (including adaptations of his novel Nice Work and Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit) and several esteemed volumes of literary criticism. In 1998, he was awarded a CBE for services to literature.