Love of fat men

There is nothing as sleep-giving as the shoulder and breast of a fat man ... Flesh provides comfort in the harsh, winterbound world of Helen Dunmore's compelling new stories, but love is stretched to breaking-point. Tense, moving and mysterious, this collection explores the pain woven into human relationships, the ambivalence of filial love and the dangerous lure of sensuality, themes which echo between stories and linger in the mind.