Mud

Chosen as a Fiction Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph by Maggie O'Farrell

In this witty and subversive collection of stories, Mich le Roberts explores women's desires, memories and loves as only she can. A jilted woman skirts the edges of time and place as she walks the streets of London at night; another returns to the scene of her honeymoon without her husband; a wife takes apt revenge on her vegetarian husband . . .

Short-listed for Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story 2011 (UK)

¿This is a delicious book, to be savoured mouthful by mouthful like caviar¿ Elaine Feinstein, INDEPENDENT ¿Roberts dazzles . . . Her writing breaks new ground¿ Megan Walsh, THE TIMES ** ¿Michèle Roberts bounces in time and place from nineteenth-century Venice, to modern-day France, to London in the 1970s . . . Roberts brings life to the tastebuds, nose, fingertips, skin . . . Impressive¿ Lucy Atkins, SUNDAY TIMES

Mich le Roberts, poet, essayist, and author of fourteen works of fiction, was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France in 2000.

Chosen as a Fiction Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph by Maggie O'FarrellIn this witty and subversive collection of stories, Mich le Roberts explores women's desires, memories and loves as only she can. A jilted woman skirts the edges of time and place as she walks the streets of London at night; another returns to the scene of her honeymoon without her husband; a wife takes apt revenge on her vegetarian husband . . .

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