In 'Slipping the Clutch', Miranda walks out of Boots one day into beautiful, beloved, fast-living Uncle Robbie who, years beforehand, taught her to drive in his Alfa Romeo and then died in his Lagonda. Well, what's past is past. Or is it?

In 'Stood up and thinking of England', Gillian's family are refugees from the 70s recession, bankrupted in Britain, surviving in Spain. But then from back home come the King family, very definitely on holiday...

Eight other stories including, 'Guts for Garters,' 'Possibility of Electricity,' and 'Don't touch it, Don't ignore it, Stay calm.'

"To be honest, my heart is with short fiction, both as a reader and a writer..."

Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (4 May 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0006550878
ISBN-13: 978-0006550877

'Even a box of frozen spinach becomes an object of beauty in the sensuous hands of Suzannah Dunn' — The Independent

'Divinely sarcastic and packed full of perky observations, it is very hard to resist' — Mail on Sunday

'Suzannah Dunn hears and sees the unheard and unnoticed' — TLS