Patience by Nigel Balchin #GBSS04/27

Patience by Nigel Balchin, number 4 of 27 Great British Short Stories 

Premise: A first person narrator explains the events around a beautiful young woman, her gambling addicted father and… well, to say more…

Review: This was great fun.  I didn’t spot the twist (there is one).  Balchin is one of my favourite writers (esp “The Small Back Room” and “Darkness Falls”) and this was a delight. Apparently there is a collection of the “Uncle Charles” stories (see below)

Outa ten: 10

Keywords: gambling

Quotes: nil

Words: nil

Look up: nil

Afterlives of the story/connections to other stuff: xxIs it online? Yes, Internet Archive – the book of short stories about his “Uncle Charles”