Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical

The first love song in the world, as composed by a pig in the Garden of Eden?
The Devil, alarmed when his hobby of writing romantic fiction begins to upstage his day job?
A man finding love with someone who has an allergy to his happiness, another losing love altogether when his wife gives him back his heart in a Tupperware box?

By turns macabre and moving, horrific and laugh-out-loud funny, Robert Shearman's short stories come from a place just to the left of the corner of your eye. Following his World Fantasy Award-winning 'Tiny Deaths', this new collection puts a bizarre twist on the love story. What is love, why does it hurt so much, and how is it we keep coming back for more?

Sometimes poignant, sometimes cruel - but always as startling and fresh as Shearman's fans have come to expect.

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