Infidelities - Kirsty Gunn

This new collection of stories offers
a candid peek at infidelity in all its guises. These are tales of lust,
deceit, resentment and regret - and of the secrets and lies that can
chip away at human relationships.

In a series of interwoven
dramas, we find mothers yearning for adventure, for the exhilaration of
the open road or the anonymity of the forest; fathers absent in body or
mind; husbands who look the other way; complacency turned to spite and
apathy turned to betrayal. At the same time Gunn pursues the glorious
rush of a snap decision, the liberty of answering that siren call of a
better life elsewhere.

Written with Gunn's trademark attention to nuances of behaviour, motive and even landscape, Infidelity is a temptingly beautiful work that asks 'What if?' and dares to find out.