Patrick Gale 
Dangerous Pleasures 

Gentle, witty and sometimes disturbing, DANGEROUS PLEASURES is Patrick Gale’s first collection of much loved short stories’Nattily subversive, sexually ambiguous, intelligent and disturbing. The prose sizzles with acidic observation‘ Sunday Times A funeral party ends in an unexpected manner; parents are faced with difficult decisions about their daughter; a housewife transforms her personality with a simple touch-up; a father’s trip to his former school brings back memories of love he thought buried forever. From gothic thrills and twisted comedy to moving family vignettes, Dangerous Pleasures offers a memorable collection of Patrick Gale’s brilliant short stories of marriage, sex and mortality.