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The First Hints of Purple is a wide-ranging collection of stories whose meticulous, elegant prose encompasses everyday experience alongside shrewd and often comic insights into human nature. Many of the tales are familiar in form whilst others comprise what Hill refers to as indeterminate literary entities'. These probe beneath the surface of ordinary events in pursuit of those indefinable aspects of reality about which no convincing explanation exists. Although such matters are by nature profound', they are also part of daily life - thereby justifying a hint of schadenfreude when a passenger train to Heathrow is delayed. Alternatively, we can only watch in silence as the Fireweed, displaying its first hints of purple', bursts into flower, regardless of nature red in tooth and claw' in the nearby undergrowth. By contrast, in The Rathbone-Baker Prize', we can breeze lightheartedly along to the Quantum Gallery where a visitor fails to realise that a pile of newspapers is not just a pile

The First Hints of Purple

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    Publisher: Troubador Publishing
    Publication Date: 1/28/2017
    ISBN13: 9781785898914, 978-1785898914
    ISBN10: 1785898914

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    The First Hints of Purple is a wide-ranging collection of stories whose meticulous, elegant prose encompasses everyday experience alongside shrewd and often comic insights into human nature. Many of the tales are familiar in form whilst others comprise what Hill refers to as indeterminate literary entities'. These probe beneath the surface of ordinary events in pursuit of those indefinable aspects of reality about which no convincing explanation exists. Although such matters are by nature profound', they are also part of daily life - thereby justifying a hint of schadenfreude when a passenger train to Heathrow is delayed. Alternatively, we can only watch in silence as the Fireweed, displaying its first hints of purple', bursts into flower, regardless of nature red in tooth and claw' in the nearby undergrowth. By contrast, in The Rathbone-Baker Prize', we can breeze lightheartedly along to the Quantum Gallery where a visitor fails to realise that a pile of newspapers is not just a pile

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