The English in Paris take on douard Manet at his own game; a family holiday sets in motion events that will last many years; an abandoned author finally seeks revenge .
In this collection of sly, witty, unsettling stories, the novelist and artist Charlotte Cory shows her skill at creating lives in a few vivid strokes, as well as her unrivalled eye for the manias and delusions that bubble away under even the most apparently comfortable of fa ades.
