Present Fears

A first collection of stories and fables in cool, elegant prose from one of Britain's finest novelistsPresent Fears gives readers a fine sampling of Taylor's work. It is a mixture of stories and fables that dissect our closest relationships to expose the violence that lies at the heart of intimacy. With unflinching precision, she describes the mundane cruelties blanketing contemporary middle class life -- the small acts of treachery, the convoluted workings of revenge. These stories reveal a world we immediately recognize as our own, a worm in which every daydream contains the plot for a nightmare.