From the Book - First Morrow Paperbacks edition.
Foreword / by Tracy Chevalier
My mother's wedding / Tessa Hadley
Grace Poole her testimony / Helen Dunmore
Dangerous dog / Kirsty Gunn
It's a man's life, ladies / Jane Gardam
Since first I saw your face / Emma Donoghue
Reader, I married him / Susan Hill
The mirror / Francine Prose
A migrating bird / Elif Shafak
Behind the mountain / Evie Wyld
The China from Buenos Aires / Patricia Park
Reader, she married me / Salley Vickers
Dorset gap / Tracy Chevalier
Party girl / Nadifa Mohamed
Transference / Esther Freud
The mash-up / Linda Grant
The self-seeding sycamore / Lionel Shriver
The orphan exchange / Audrey Niffenegger
Double men / Namwali Serpell
Robinson Crusoe at the waterpark / Elizabeth McCracken
Notes on the contributors
A note on Charlotte Brontë.
