{"product_id":"mud-stories-of-sex-and-love","title":"Mud: Stories of Sex and Love","description":"Product Description       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 . . .       Review       'Roberts's latest collection of short stories offfers not only the poetry of her exquisite sensibilites but a saturnalian experience . . . The short story is an intimate, subtle and enigmatic form: Michele Roberts reminds us tin this virtuoso collection that she in one of our foremost practitioners of the art' --Stevie Davies, Guardian  'This is an exhilarating collection of stories suffused with a wry wit and a warm - even hot - heartedness. Writing of such a high calibre can make you feel that the life of the mind is everything, that the acute observation and intelligence of the writer is a sort of mirror to what matters most in life. Yet these stories constantly remind us, in their strong and lustrous prose, that in the fullest lives the physical realm is equally if not more pressing and important' --Susie Boyt, Financial Times  'Roberts's greatest skill is the insight with which she writes about women caught up in heightened states of awareness . . . her writing breaks new ground'  --The Times       Book Description       * From the highly acclaimed poet and novelist, winner of fiction prizes and wonderful reviews, comes Michele Roberts's latest short stories, available in paperback       About the Author       Half-English\/half-French, Mich�le Roberts was born in 1949. DAUGHTERS OF THE HOUSE (1992) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the W.H. Smith Literary Award. She has just been appointed Professor of Creative Writing at UEA.","brand":"Virago","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40159998410837,"sku":"9781844083893N","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/mud-stories-of-sex-and-love","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}