This title is the new collection of short stories from award-winning author Tessa Hadley. Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she is getting married. The youngest daughter of a large & close-knit family Lottie is nineteen but looks five years younger. Her fiance is Edgar Lennox a composer of religious music & lecturer at Lottie's university forty-five years her senior. It is a story of romantic dreams & daily reality family loyalties tested but holding & the comedy & solace to be found in small moments. Evoking a world that expands beyond the pages it marks the beginning of what is an astonishing collection to treasure.