If there is a thread running through Simon Robson’s brilliant collection of stories it is the notion of separateness – of adults from each other, of children from adult knowledge, of adult consciousness from the vividness of childhood.
His protagonists are often unlikely – a cat, a man, met in a bar, who drove a chariot in Ben Hur; a girl who gets up very early – but the stories are wise, funny, beautifully observed and somehow utterly true.
