Through Any Window AUTHOR: Patricia Stone ISBN: 0921833415 160 PAGES $17.95 CDN $14.95 US ABOUT THE BOOK: Through Any Window, Patricia Stone's second collection of short stories, delves into the lives of mature, reluctantly independent women who are struggling to find themselves in the world. What sets them off is often as mundane—and as real—as watching a longtime neighbour moving away, attempting to help an ungrateful itinerant, getting drawn into a blind couple's troubles or suffering a miscarriage. The reader is drawn surely, inexorably, into this world of women.   REVIEWS: "A woman in a full-length slip gazes out a window on the cover of Stone's latest book. The woman's hand cups the window frame and her eyes follow a seemingly endless trail. Stone, whose first collection of short stories, Close Calls, was published in 1991, traces the lives of many women in her work. Women with questions about life. Women facing obstacles and women discovering their independence. Coming of age was once the focus of Stone's work, when the Oshawa born and raised woman started writing seriously at age eighteen. 'First experiences. Love. A brush with death. Religion. Those things compelled me to start writing in the first place,' she says. 'Settling down, that's what everyone in my age group was dealing with.' At 43, Stone's stories mirror the relationships of mature women. Today, her first concern is exploring how people cope with different emotions." —The Peterborough Examiner "In the risks that she takes, in the escapes that persist, Stone exhibits a finely strung and articulate imagination." —University of Toronto Quarterly