Playing with Shadows

This is a wonderful book of stoies. Gloria Whelan is adept in creating the small luminous details that bring a story to life. She is miraculously fair to all her character, young and old, and her accounts are both funny and frightening. She is an urbane and generous writer and her stories are concentrated with feeling and intelligence." Charles Baxter "Playing with Shadows" has a pleasing worldliness; it takes in young and old, rich and poor, servants and masters, husbands and wives. And Whelan's chief gift as a writer, her power of empathy, is a great strength Chicago Tribune