Indeed, her descriptions of sunlight in the kitchen garden, the warm life of plants, the comforting voluptuousness of cream and cider, might come from Colette's own pages.
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Another begins during a blizzard in Manhattan, where two old friends enjoy a warm, life-changing reunion.
What makes this version special is the sense of an editor finding his voice; and of a mustard-yellow hardback book that, even in occasionally difficult times, still throbs with warming life.
Night after night in his lonely outhouse, there's nothing for him to do but fantasise a better, warmer life, and pick the locks of his father's filing cabinets, hoping to find some tender reference to his own dead mother, or even a photo of the child he'd been before, when he was loved.
It is warm and life is vibrant here.
Her warm red life is spattered rudely over the icy whiteness of a Minnesota winter.
Will Payne, head of TV at The Sun, said: "Corrie has always been about warm northern life.
She was pale no longer, but ruddy and warm, and life was like a flame within her.
He describes a warm family life in Durham, going to church or out to his Aunt Pete's farm, where grown-ups sat on the porch telling scary stories about snakes in the backwoods.
But perhaps because of these intimations of mortality, you can't help but be amazed at just how much warm, exuberant life there is in this ramshackle, loose-limbed story.
