A collection of short stories focusing on romantic encounters: From the creator of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency comes a medley of perverse couplings, casual dates and romantic encounters: hilarious tales that will 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, unedifying, complex and sometimes completely disastrous.