A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble

A couple of reviews led me to pick up the precise and timelessĀ A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories by Margaret Drabble, a writer whom I’ve read only in novel form. After finishing this collection, published in 2011, I find I have nothing to add to the wiser and more articulate reviewers who led me to its pages, in the Guardian and in the Independent, beyond my whole-hearted agreement.