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Theres something exceptionally comforting about a short story collection like Girls Night Out, Boys Night In . Firstly, theres the choicethis is a truly bumper package, with more than 30 stories by some of contemporary fictions most familiar names including Kathy Lette, Matt Beaumont, Mike Gayle, Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees. Not only is there some superb writing on of Theres something exceptionally comforting about a short story collection like Girls Night Out, Boys Night In . Firstly, theres the choicethis is a truly bumper package, with more than 30 stories by some of contemporary fictions most familiar names including Kathy Lette, Matt Beaumont, Mike Gayle, Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees. Not only is there some superb writing on offer but youre guaranteed therell be a story for every mood youre inbe it optimism, anger, revenge, love or hatred. And if you embark on a story you dont likeand there may be a few of thoseyou can just move on. A few pages further on, therell be another to grab you, such as Obedience, the story of a local murder a nasty stabbing with a cauliflower knife told by a man more interested in his puppys progress at obedience classes or Delivering Happyware, in which two teenage girls struggle with crushes and their summer job as door-to-door touters of speedy mops, freezer boxes and toast cutters or even Little Boots, an unfairy tale about a man whose wife has long since become preoccupied with everything but him and his new doga rangy beast with outsized paws and a face full of teeth the size of hunting knives. Like Nick Hornbys Speaking with the Angel , Girls Night Out, Boys Night In has been produced for a good cause. One pound of every copy sold will go to War Child, a charity working for children in war zones whose lives have been torn apart by conflict. Jane Honey