by TessaHadley (Author)
Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in the pub who looks just like him. Young mothers pent-up in childcare dream treacherously of other possibilities; a boy becomes aware of the woman, a guest at his parents' holiday home, who is pressing up too close against him on the beach. Hidden away inside the present, the past is explosive; the future can open unexpectedly out of any chance encounter; ordinary moments are illuminated with lightning flashes of dread or pleasure. These stories about family life are somehow undomesticated and dangerous.
Format: paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published:
ISBN 10: 0099499258
ISBN 13: 9780099499251
Book Overview: A remarkable collection of short stories by the author of Accidents in the Home, one of the most perceptive and entertaining writers in Britain, 'a rare and startling gem' (Guardian).