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A short-story collection from one of America’s brightest young talents.In one of these intensely imaginative stories a young woman’s furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details of a property transaction illuminate the complicated dependences and loves of a family.Following spiralling paths towards utterly logical, entirely absurd conclusions, Galchen’s creations occupy a dreamlike dimension, where time is fluid and identities are best defined by the qualities they lack. The tales in this groundbreaking collection are secretly in conversation with canonical stories, allowing the reader the pleasure of discovering familiar favourites in new guises. Here ‘The Lost Order’ covertly recapitulates James Thurber’s ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’, while ‘The Region of Unlikeness’ playfully mirrors Jorge Luis Borges’s ‘The Aleph’.By turns realistic, fantastical and lyrical, all these marvellously uneasy stories share a deeply emotional core and are written in dryly witty, pitch-perfect prose. Whether exploring the tensions in a mother-daughter relationship or the finer points of time travel, Galchen is a writer of eye-opening ingenuity.

A woman scorned…Art expert Prudence Elliot is shocked when a new job brings her face-to-face with Laszlo de Zsadany – the irresistible enigma who blazed through her life like a comet, leaving only her shattered heart in his wake.A husband discovered…Even more shockingly, not only is Laszlo a secret millionaire, but their youthful pledging of love was legally binding – he’s her husband!A fiery reconciliation!Prudence is an addiction that Laszlo cannot fight – but surely the heat between them will quickly burn out? Except soon he’s forced to admit that his craving for his wife is blazing out of control… !Discover More At www.millsandboon.co.uk/louisefuller