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 and close-knit family, Lottie is nineteen but looks five years younger. Her fiancé is Edgar Lennox, a composer of religious music and lecturer at Lottie's university, forty-five years her senior.It is a story of romantic dreams and daily reality, family loyalties tested but holding, and the comedy and 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.

Tessa Hadleyis the author of six highly praised novels,Accidents in the Home, which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award,Everything Will Be All Right,The Master Bedroom,The LondonTrain,Clever GirlandThe Past, and two collections of stories,SunstrokeandMarried Love.The Pastwon the Hawthornden Prize for 2016. She lives in London and is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her stories appear regularly in theNewYorkerand other magazines.

A masterful new collection from one of the most accomplished storytellers of today.