Book Addicts Anonymous

This was a bit of a departure from what I usually read. Not in the subject matter of the book, just that it is a book of short stories, and I don't usually go for short stories.
This is a great selection, all by the same author, and spans life's milestones. My personal favourite was a story called "The Sanctuary of Hands" . It tells of a woman tourist wanting to escape from the "rat race" after divorce, and she is holidaying alone, and intends to keep herself apart for the whole of the holiday. She decides on a cave tour one day, thinking she can keep apart, and I won't spoil the story. But she realsies that she can't keep herself apart from the human race because of the encounter that ensues.