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The View from Endless Street: Short Stories from the South of England Kindle Edition

by Rebecca Lloyd (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.6 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
With this collection of short stories set in the south of England and beyond, Rebecca Lloyd explores relationships and the brave or foolish things they can make people do. These stories about murder and ghosts, delusion and desperation, obsession and arson, show readers a sometimes sweet, sometimes macabre vision of humanity.

Rebecca Lloyd channels Roald Dahl’s wit and flair for the unexpected in this collection that will appeal to the quirky side of the literary reader.
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    26 Mar. 2014
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JAOKZOI
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ WiDo Publishing
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 26 Mar. 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 9.1 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 266 pages
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Rebecca Lloyd

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Rebecca Lloyd writes short stories, novellas and the occasional novel. Most of her stories are about misfits bewildered by life’s expectations and trapped in their own limitations. Some stories could be described as psychological horror and others as magic realism, and from time to time she writes about ghostly things. What interests her most is the inventive ways we deal with what life throws at us, and the ability many of us have to slip between our invented worlds and the shared world, as if travelling back and forth down a long worn path.

Since 2014, literary awards in which Rebecca has been short-listed include The World Fantasy Award and the Aestas Short Story Prize. Her most recent published work includes her novel Oothangbart, (Pillar International Publishing), and four short story collections, Mercy and Other Stories, (Tartarus Press), The View from Endless Street, (WiDo Publishing), Ragman and Other Family Curses, (Egaeus Press) and Seven Strange Stories, (Tartarus Press). Her stories have been reprinted in Best British Horror (Salt Publishing), Best New Horror (PS Publishing) and Best Horror of the Year, Volume nine with Ellen Datlow. She has also written two novellas, Jack Werrett, the Flood Man, (Dunhams Manor Press) and Woolfy and Scrapo, (The Fantasist Magazine). She is presently working on a Gothic horror novel set in 1850.

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  • Camus
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful dark writing- "on a night when God's eyes must have been elsewhere"
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 April 2014
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    If you like short stories then you are in for a treat. Lloyd writes with sensitivity and compassion, even while her stories are sinister. Her characters are desperate and haunting. Her language is rich, textured and nuanced.

    Some examples of her beautiful writing:

    "The moon was hanging in the sky....like a moist, red grape."
    "...he'd a funny hatched face as if he had fallen asleep on a candlewick bedspread"
    "...the water was dark, all its facets sombre, slate grey and rippling"
    "And as I watched the beautiful serenity of the floating trash, I felt awe, if awe is a solemn quiet kind of thing that reaches deep inside you."
    "we have to live in the world as it is now despite the noise, don't we?"
    "...as if there were ants carrying dead things back to their nest"

    And many more.

    This captivating, delightful collection of stories which will leave you unsettled and thoughtful.
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  • Loarn Paterson
    3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 January 2015
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    Good length, good pace, engaging vocabulary, twists that shock. The mood is rather dark.
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  • Caroline Marks
    5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely loving these stories!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2023
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    I discovered Rebecca a week ago on a YouTube channel and immediately bought this on Kindle. I’m only six stories in, and looking at the reviews, I think I’m in for many more treats.

    I love her writing, the topics and the way she crafts her words. I’m trying to read one a day. This morning I chuckled my way through, The Drum.

    I’m so pleased I found this author.
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  • Sarah Hague
    5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely recommended
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 April 2016
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    A fabulous collection of dark short stories that are beautifully written, sometimes totally bizarre, mysterious and haunting. Recommended.
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  • Fan of subtlety
    5.0 out of 5 stars Exquisite writing, poignant portraits....and unexpected twists!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 August 2017
    I first encountered Rebecca Lloyd's stories in her two excellent Tartarus Press collections of unsettling tales, MERCY and SEVEN STRANGE STORIES. As an admirer of the subtler writers of wonder such as Robert Aickman, Walter de la Mare, Reggie Oliver and Joel Lane, I felt right at home in Ms. Lloyd's quirky and often macabre universe.

    THE VIEW FROM ENDLESS STREET, although somewhat different from these other collections, still presents Lloyd's distinctive writing in fine form. Although the supernatural is less obviously present in these tales (written over a period of many years), the uniqueness of her vision still permeates these sketches and tales, and the people who inhabit them. These stories have a wider range of situations than her other collections, although they are ostensibly linked by their locale, as the volume's subtitle indicates. What is perhaps more apparent in these stories than her strictly "strange" tales is Ms. Lloyd's heart. Her portraits of the people herein are gentle, and her vision empathetic, sometimes ironic, occasionally wistful and wry--but always involving and intriguing. And often, very poignant.

    Favorites: "The River", "The Snow Room", "Don't Drink the Water", "The View From Endless Street", "Now You Can Live", and the absolutely beautiful "Time Stolen".

    Highly recommended. And once you've read these stories and the ones in the Tartarus collections, seek out her wildly original novel OOTHANGBART. I'm betting it's unlike anything else you've read of late, and--as always with Rebecca Lloyd--the writing is exquisite. If the "strange stories" are more to your taste, there's always Egaeus Press's RAGMAN AND OTHER FAMILY CURSES.

    Whichever titles you may choose, Ms. Lloyd is unlikely to disappoint you.
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  • Amanda Book lover
    5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful collection of short stories
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 December 2014
    Rebecca Lloyd is a very talented writer and The View from the Endless Street demonstrates this. Each short story is beautifully written and evokes the ordinariness of life in all its extraordinariness. If I had to pick a favourite it would be The Oil Drum. 'There were echoes and ovals of light that slid and widened, and broke up into ragged shapes and long fragments almost at the moment they formed'. To write a collection of short stories in which each one deserves applause is a difficult task but Lloyd manages it perfectly. Highly recommended.
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  • Elizabeth Maria Naranjo
    5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful collection of short stories
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 October 2014
    The first story in this gorgeous collection from Rebecca Lloyd won the Bristol Short Story Prize in 2008. Here's a sample from "The River":

    "There were afternoons when the tiny choppy waves that signalled the incoming tide were yellow ochre at their crests in the low sunlight, and the writhing valleys of water between them were a war of deep blue and silver."

    Each story in THE VIEW FROM ENDLESS STREET is crafted with these beautiful sentences, but also pitch-perfect dialogue and a slew of quirky characters. The stories explore isolation and heartbreak, longing and loneliness, obsession, and even a touch of the macabre. That last one is called "Shuck," and is one of my favorites. You should really check it out.
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  • Richard Thomas
    5.0 out of 5 stars Quite a view
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 January 2015
    Powerful stories overflowing with emotion. Really enjoyed this collection.
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  • Anon
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Fabulous Collection
    Reviewed in the United States on 20 October 2014
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    Rebecca Lloyd explores the unusual in her short story collection, The View from Endless Street: a woman warns her son’s girlfriend about him, childhood friends live out their final days together on the street, a father does not remember his younger daughter, a mother does not appear in public, a boy gets a scholarship that should have gone to his brother, to name just a few.

    The stories start off innocuously enough but soon uncomfortable truths start tumbling out necessitating a re-examination of the intentions of the characters. Rebecca peels away layer after layer in each story allowing readers to discover kernels of truth hidden inside the narrative. And this she does using vivid imagery, weaving together unlikely elements, offering whole new perspectives to think about. The sentences in this collection tell little tales by themselves before they loop together to tell a larger story. Consider the lines in Heave on Fire and Time Stolen:

    “Janice doesn’t sound mad to me, but my neighbour Barbara worked in a funny farm once and she couldn’t tell the difference between the patients and the doctors the whole time she was there.”

    “The stealing was a gradual thing; the loss denied until events became so dramatic there was no hiding of it in the small sloping streets of our neighbourhood, where privet hedges were never wild, and flying ants come up through pavement cracks only on one day a year.”

    The beauty of the prose and the structure of the stories speak much about the author’s superb command over the craft of writing. This is not a book you read and keep back, it is a book you take out and read again and again; and each time you discover something new.

    It is so difficult to choose a favourite in this collection, I particularly enjoyed The Egyptian Boat, An Ordinary Coma, Time Stolen, The Pool, Willard’s Curios, Heaven on Fire, The Balloon, Shuck, The River...in other words, the whole book.

    The View from Endless Street is a fantastic collection of stories, an anthology you can read for pleasure as also a book that aspiring writers can look at to see how stories are ‘shown’ as against ‘told’.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars very entertaining
    Reviewed in the United States on 16 November 2014
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    Enjoyable and quite quirky at times. Good for a weekend read. The stories were variable and well written and the characters interesting.
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