Goose Pond
The star story in 'Leah, Newhampshire' a collection by Thomas Williams. After the death of his wife, Robert Hurley goes back to Leah where he was born. While hunting in the great forests of beech, juniper, maple and pine, he relives his wife's last months and at the same time confronts his own mortality and the dangers of the woods where he hunted as a boy. A sparsely evocative story with a brilliant final line.
Reviewed by Laura