Publisher's Synopsis
This is a collection of short stories which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976. The awakening sensations of first love and its ritual initiations are the main topics of the short stories contained in this book.
About the Publisher
Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.
