I first read this collection when I was a reader for Onlywomen Press. I gave it an enthusiastic thumbs up, but was ignored, so was thrilled to see it published elsewhere. ‘The Stations of the Cross’ is a neat little story about an academic job interview that goes horribly wrong that manages to be political, funny, and accommodating of the other people around the distraught candidate as she phones friends in tears and has a complete meltdown in a layby beneath the hillside shrine of the title.

First published in Feminist Studies, Spring 1994, and collected in Monsieur Shoushana’s Lemon Trees, Serpent’s Tail, 1997