From the creator of The No.1 Ladies Detective Agencycomes a medley of perverse couplings, casual dates and romantic encounters: hilarious tales that will also sadden, inspire and surprise. McCall Smith, a master of the unexpected and a seamless storyteller, revels in offering us the quirky complications inherent in entanglements which human beings engineer for themselves - entanglements that can be shocking, edifying, complex and sometimes, completely disastrous.