A.L. Kennedy 
All the Rage 

The dazzling new collection from the Costa Prize-winning author of Day and The Blue Book.
She doesn’t ever lie to him unless it’s for the best.
A husband and wife wait for a train as their relationship unspools silently around them. A woman contemplates the idea of her lover dying as she queues in a bank. An almost impossibly uncomfortably lunch culminates in a passionate kiss. In this dazzling collection of stories lies the battlefield of the heart, where characters who have suffered somehow emerge – haltingly, awkwardly – into the astonishment of intimacy.