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ID
b290
Title
"The Winter Sound."
Genre
Story
Page Count
18
Word Count
4500
Publisher
Weekend Telegraph
Publication Year
1965
Topics
Animals

A snobbish loner in her fifties, whose chief companion is her poodle, takes interest in an attractive widower at her guest-house.

He however has a love interest already, one who is "buoyant and gay" despite having recently lost both her father and husband in a car crash.

In the Weekend Telegraph (May 21, 1965), The Wedding Party (1965).