cover image The Elizabeth Stories

The Elizabeth Stories

Isabel Huggan. Penguin Books, $8.95 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-14-010199-7

The adolescent traumas of Elizabeth Kessler, who grows up in a Canadian town in the l950s, are sensitively explored in loosely connected tales. ""These are lovely, compassionate and candid stories,'' wrote PW, ``well-shaped and full of heart, like their narrator.'' (May)