These dazzling & utterly satisfying stories explore varieties & degrees of love
- filial platonic sexual parental & imagined
- in the lives of apparently ordinary folk. In fact Munros characters pulse with idiosyncratic life. Under the polished surface of these unsentimental dispatches from the small-town & rural front lies a strong undertow of violence & sexuality repressed until something snaps with extraordinary force in some of the stories sadly & strangely in others.