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Visionary tales: Mrs Calder and the Hyena, by Marjorie Ann Watts, reviewed

Sharply drawn characters, young and old, gleefully challenge conventional judgments and form liberating new friendships in this exhilarating collection of short stories

1 February 2025

9:00 AM

1 February 2025

9:00 AM

Mrs Calder and the Hyena Marjorie Ann Watts

CB Editions, pp.198, 10.99

One of the pleasures of reading, often looked down on in literary circles, is when one warms to an author’s characters. Among the many delights of Mrs Calder and the Hyena, Marjorie Ann Watts’s second collection of short stories, was my feeling that here were people with whom I would get along.

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