Jane Rogers.com: The official site. Author of 'Mr Wroe's Virgins', 'Her Living Image', 'Separate Tracks', 'Island', 'Promised Lands, 'The Voyage Home', The Ice is Singing, The Testament of Jessie Lamb

Ellipsis 2 Comma Modern Shorts
Featuring: Jane Rogers , Polly Clark , Zoe Lambert

A bank manager arrives at work one day to find himself the new employer of his ex-wife.

In the middle of a shift a divorced bus driver abandons his vehicle, to search for his estranged son.

Two sisters come to terms with their father’s disappearance with the help of a skeleton called Indira.
The stories in Ellipsis 2 explore the inherent dysfunctionality of almost all relationships, their aftermaths, and the lengths people go to to redeem them. From the ingrained resentments of Jane Rogers’ parent-child histories, to the twisted claustrophobia of Polly Clark’s couples, and the absence that travels beside each passenger in Zoe Lambert’s bus sequence – these stories demonstrate the transforming, often alienating affect a relationship can have on the individuals in it, and remind us that being next of kin isn’t always kind.

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