From one of Ireland's most grindingly authentic & radically original talents Room Little Darker explores the clandestine aspects of modern life through jagged visceral tales of wanton sex broken relationships & futuristic nightmares An abusive father haunts his daughter & wife from the confines of a nursing home; a couple with an appetite for S&M discover their escapades have led them into something unimaginably bleak; a desperate addict scours the depths of degradation in a nightmare Dublin; an unborn foetus narrates her torturous experience of the Irish legal system; a paedophile acquires a robotic little boy as part of his sex therapy At once hilarious & profoundly moving Caldwell's stories probe sexuality & disturbing psychology & the darkess & light that lives within us all