This fierce, funny and compassionate collection explores every facet of that most overwhelming and complicated of human emotions: love. With winning directness, Jackie Kay captures her characters greatest joy and greatest vulnerability, exposing the moments of tenderness, of shock, of bravery and stupidity that accompany the search for love, the discovery of love and, most of all, love's loss.

Author Biography

Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh. Her novel Trumpet was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998, and her previous short-story collection, Why Don't You Stop Talking, was published to great acclaim in 2002. She lives in Manchester.