A new collection of short stories from the acclaimed author of }The Road Home, Music & Silence, Restoration, The Colour{ and many others. Tremain lays bare the soul of her characters, the admirable, the embarrassing, the unfulfilled, the sexy and the adorable, to uncover a range of human emotions and desires. Tremain has won the Orange Prize, the Whitbread Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.