Married Love, and Other Stories

In the title story of this collection, Lottie announces that she is getting married. The youngest daughter of a large and close-knit family, she is nineteen but looks five years younger. Her fiancé is Edgar Lennox, a lecturer at Lottie’s university, forty-five years her senior. We follow as Lottie’s life unfolds; it is a story of romantic dreams and daily reality, family loyalties and the comedy and solace to be found in small moments. Other stories include “Friendly Fire,” “A Mouthful of Cut Glass,” “The Trojan Prince,” “Because the Night,” “Journey Home,” “In the Country,” “The Godchildren,” “She’s the One,” “In the Cave,” “Pretending,” and “Post Production.”