Midnight all day

Midnight All Day is an astonishing, darkly comic collection of new stories, in which Kureishi confirms his reputation as one of our foremost chroniclers of the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. The characters are familiar in the cultural landscape of the nineties: frustrated and intoxicated, melancholic and sensitive, yet capable of great cruelty, and if necessary, willing to break the constraints of an old life to make way for the new. This anthology chronicles the many forms of crisis in contemporary relationships. All the stories proceed from a central premise: that we are unerring in our choice of lovers - especially when it comes to the wrong person.