SOURCE: "The Walking Wounded," in Maclean's Magazine, Vol. 103, No. 44, October 29, 1990, p. 85.

In the following review, Mackay praises Thomas's presentation of emotionally scarred women in The Wild Blue Yonder.

Pointing out his own romantic shortcomings, a husband in one of Audrey Thomas's new short stories ruefully asks his dissatisfied wife, "Whoever heard of a prince with a bald spot on the top of his head?" She replies, bitterly, "Whoever heard of a princess with stretch marks?" For all of the characters in The Wild Blue Yonder, Thomas's third short-story collection, life is distinctly unlike a fairy tale. Flesh turns to flab, romance burns to ashes, and husbands move on, usually to younger, more attractive women. At mid-life, Thomas's heroines find themselves chalking up more losses than gains, and the past will not leave them in peace. "When someone you love tells you that it's over, when you've been married...