The Worm Turns More: Short Stories

This, the second volume for short stories by the late Marion Baxter, strengthens her reputation as an accomplished writer. Perhaps her most outstanding talent is the way she takes on the persona of the characters in her stories – as a teenage boy of mixed race, as a gung-ho press photographer, an adventurous widow, a stolid university professor, a grieving father turned hippie, a plagiarist poet, an earnest young Austrian musicologist, a wannabe suicide-committer, a student drug mule, a car thief – we can only admire her versatility.