Bette Howland

An extraordinary portrait of a brilliant mind on the brink: A new edition of the 1974 memoir by the author of the acclaimed collection Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage. With an introduction by Yiyun Li. For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in...

The work of a woman who has invested her life in her art, and who will, I think, be remembered as one of the significant writers of her generation. - Saul Bellow Blue in Chicago collects together the sharp, bittersweet stories of Bette Howland and restores to our bookshelves an extraordinarily gifted writer, who was recognised as a major talent...

'Reminiscent of Edna O'Brien, with shades too of Jean Rhys.' - The Irish Times Things to Come and Go showcases the incomparable talent of Bette Howland in three novellas of stunning power, beauty, and sustaining humour. 'Birds of a Feather' is a daughter's story of her extended, first-generation family, the 'big, brassy yak-yakking Abarbanels'. Esti, a merciless, astute observer, recalls...