The Song is Ended and Other Stories (Electronic book text)

Although this collection of fifteen short stories is fictional, it reflects my wide experience of life, as I have always been told to "write about what you know". Thus there are stories about singers and accompanists, teachers and pupils, and older people trying to adjust to inevitable changes in their lives. Settings are South African or British, and stories take place on board ship, in schools, homes, studios or theatres. Several stories are loosely based on particular incidents in my life, but are still fiction rather than fact, such as Dux Scholar, Wise Words in the Chippy, Michelle, By Appointment, and The Song is Ended.