Fool for love: the selected short stories. Deborah Moggach,

Twin beds -- Blind date -- New Year's Story 1: Playing the part -- New Year's Story 2: Hot tickets -- Joyce's big lie -- How are you? -- An arrangement in grey and black -- Afternoon games -- Sunday in the park with Henry -- Light my fire -- How to divorce your son -- Changing babies -- Suspicion -- Ta for the memories -- Stopping at the lights -- How I learnt to be a real countrywoman -- Family feelings: five linked stories (1. Fool for love -- 2. The use of irony -- 3. Rent-a-granny -- 4. Sex objects -- 5. I don't want to know) -- A pedicure in Florence -- Summer bedding -- Smile -- The wrong side -- Making hay -- Lost boys -- Snake girl -- Vacant possession -- Some day my prince will come.

From swimming on Hampstead Heath to house-sitting with troublesome dogs, or illicit afternoon trysts in Soho to pedicures in Florence with recalcitrant teenagers,. this collection of short stories includes some previously unpublished in book form, and covers the gamut of human nature - our foibles, our loves, our desires, hopes, ambitions and failures.