Description

In the Whitbread Prize-winning writer of The Unintentional and Resort World comes this spectacular collection of stories occur a world of daily dislocation, where individuals nonetheless discover link, secret, and love. These tales are of regular but touching elegance: in the bar, visitors regale each other with recollections of Christmases past; lovers reveal tales over dinner about how exactly they met, their previous lovers, and each other; a lady actually shows a tale to her fourteen-year-old self. As Jones examines the delicate links between what we understand and what we experience, she produces a modern, masterly collection that's loaded saturated in Laughter, suggestions, nuance, and compassion.  Ali Jones and the short-story are created for every other.