Carver's stories celebrate some lasting aspects of the human condition, however minimal, conjuring up a quality of fellow feeling, which gives the stories a compelling, dry-eyed poignancy, a melancholy but intensely moving authenticity

This dazzling little collection is a treat

All the stories in this collection are superb. Each sucks the reader, with magical speed, into the hearts of the characters, while seeming to say almost nothing about them. And they are not always gloomy, these hearts

A collection of stories it would be hard to forget

Galloway's ear for dialogue is astonishing, almost musical

Scottish writer Janie Galloway has a reputation for going where more polite writers fear to tread..this includes some of the author's most distinctive work...this original collection will wake up the most jaded palate.

Galloway can evoke a life, a relationship, just about the whole human condition, within ten brilliantly written pages

Affectingly raw and full of surprises

Spikey, bleak stories you won't forget ... poignant stories, all of which stand immediate rereading

Her stories are suggestively musical examples of rich, Glaswegian gothic

At last, Galloway's stories are back in print in one collection...savagely accurate, engaging and funny, she is one of our great contemporary writers

A testament to the sharp eye and shrewd brain of Janice Galloway, one of Scotland's finest writers

A writer of passion and virtuosity