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A highly acclaimed collection of short stories set in the great outdoors of New England, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Shipping News’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’.Just outside town, beyond the drugstore and the diner, there's another world – a wilderness – waiting to be explored. On the high, wooded hillsides there are deer to be stalked; far upriver there are quiet pools of trout, and grouse to be shot and traplines to be laid for fur. In the far-flung settlements of New England, life revolves around hunting.Whether they are yuppies from the town who think that country life is improving or natives who know all too well that it isn't, the men and women of these stories are all hunting for something better – though getting by at all is hard enough. These are men and women who live, love and lose; men and women who fall apart and who pick up the pieces, who dream useless dreams and go on dreaming whatever the disappointments.Tough and tender and irresistibly humorous, this unforgettable book takes its reader on a trail through the great outdoors to the innermost places of the heart.

All that glitters… Merciless businessman Ciro D’Angelo knows an opportunity when he sees it – and Lily Scott’s vulnerable sweetness and old-fashioned values are exactly what he needs in a wife. She’s the complete opposite to the red-taloned gold-diggers who relentlessly pursue him. Isn’t gold…But on their wedding night Ciro realises that Lily isn’t quite the pure bride he expected. Does her virtuous façade hide a fortune-hunter as shameless as the rest? It seems their marriage is over before it’s begun – yet once you’re a D’Angelo wife there’s no turning back…