Carys Bray & Rowan Hisayo Buchanan 
How Much the Heart Can Hold 
Seven Stories on Love

‘Startlingly original stories.’S Magazine’Together they assert that love is more heart-breaking and transforming that the word necessarily conveys.’Observer Love is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for family, to Mania, a frenzied, obsessive love. Seven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love. ‘Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.’ Zelda Fitzgerald This paperback edition of How Much the Heart Can Hold includes the winning short story from the Sceptre Loves short story Prize.