Tonight, we’ll read the opening to the short story “At the Bay” written by Katherine Mansfield, published in 1922.

Mansfield was a New Zealand writer, widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world, and have been published in 25 languages.

Her prose is often described as impressionistic, capturing fleeting moments and shifts in mood with a painter’s sensitivity. “At the Bay” is part of her final collection, The Garden Party and Other Stories, and is set in a sunlit coastal settlement reminiscent of the bays near her hometown of Wellington. In it, the dawn opens over a household stirring awake, and the reader is invited into a world of sensory immediacy—shifting light, sea breezes, and the subtle interplay between family members.

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