Pregnant women, students and journalists; farmers and birdwatchers,ex-wives, adolescent lovers - an dancing girls. All ordinary people or arethey? In this collection of short stories Margaret Atwood maps humanmotivation we scarcely know we have 'Margaret Atwood's stories are fierceparables about the horror of city life and the power politics ofrelationships. The fierceness filters insidiously through the leisurelyrealism of her domestic interiors, clothes, meals, weather... A remarkablecollection' Victoria Glendinning, Sunday Times