A brave, exciting and adult collection that entertains with wit, shocks with frankness, and engages both intellect and emotion. Richly varied, it ranges from extended stories to intense pieces of flash fiction.

Stories may be set in realistic settings – but develop magical narrative twists that make us see all afresh. Others begin in fantasy – returnees from the dead, a man who finds discarded hymens – but are so skilfully realist we can only believe in their actuality.

Leone Ross is a novelist, short story writer, editor, journalist and academic of Jamaican and Scottish ancestry. Her first novel, All The Blood Is Red was long listed for the Orange Prize, her second novel, Orange Laughter was a BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour Watershed Fiction favourite. She has published one collection of acclaimed short stories, Come Let us Sing Anyway, and her latest novel is One Sky Day.