Perfect Lives

Product Description

In an English seaside town, lovers & children, young men & middle-aged women weave in & out of each other's lives & stories. A mother is tormented by her daughter's tattoo; another only pretends to love her baby. A wife stalks her husband & his new lover; a broken egg through a letterbox tells a story that will not go away; the cat thinks he knows best. Threaded throughout are longings for love & poignant disappointments, surprising pleasures & temptations. Some will fall but some, like the small boy at the circus who sees his babysitter fly past on a trapeze wearing little more than a blue bra & spangles, will retain their feeling of awe. PERFECT LIVES, follows Polly Samson's rapturously received first collection, LYING IN BED. They are rueful, knowing, witty, poignant, bashful, bold. Her genius is in the nuance.