Michael Redhill's first short-story collection explores the highways and byways of human relationships, marital and extramarital, parental and sibling. Both affected and unsettling, darker than Redhill's first novel, these stories share that book's fascination with - and acute observation of - the things that human beings can do to each other, the ways they can misunderstand each other and the pain they can cause each other, quite often unwittingly.