The dazzling new collection from the Costa Prize-winning author ofDayandThe Blue Book.
She doesnt ever lie to him unless its for the best.
A husband and wife wait for a train as their relationship unspools silently around them. A woman contemplates the idea of her lover dying as she queues in a bank. An almost impossibly uncomfortably lunch culminates in a passionate kiss. In this dazzling collection of stories lies the battlefield of the heart, where characters who have suffered somehow emerge haltingly, awkwardly into the astonishment of intimacy.
A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Grantas Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards including the Costa Book of the Year for her novelDay. She lives in London and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at Warwick University.
A dozen stories: a dozen ways of looking at love, or the lack of love. Over five previous collections, A. L. Kennedy has shown herself to be a master of the short form, with a perfect way with sentences and a voice so distinct as to be instantly recognisable. Shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
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