Author(s): Jackie Kay

Fiction

This fierce, funny and compassionate collection explores every facet of that most overwhelming and complicated of human emotions: love. With winning directness, Kay captures her characters' greatest joys 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. "Jackie Kay's characters sing from the page, each one utterly individual...There is no facile cynicism here; instead, you will find something more humane...a resonance that echoes long after the brief pages have been read, that leaves the reader elated and amazed" - Daily Telegraph. "Kay gives hugely of her talent; pours it onto the page...These stories charm, move and entertain the reader in full-hearted, direct prose. They are full of narrative satisfactions, written with a democratic ear and a poet's poise, with a lyrical twist of phrase that wrings precise emotions from the reader, every time" - Anne Enright, Guardian. "Kay's humour and optimism are transcendent" - Sunday Herald.