Reasons I Won't be Coming

Funny and brilliantly astute, Elliot Perlman's stories dissect the modern world of downsizing, anxiety and sexual confusion. The Reasons I Won't be Coming explores the complex lives of lovers, poets, lawyers, immigrants, students and murderers. An office worker discovers his lover's betrayal via e-mail. A woman hires a private detective and trawls through the underworld for her brother. A man finds himself waking up, once again, beside the wrong person..