The Portable Virgin
Anne Enright 
Random House
<p><b>'Elegant, scrupulously poised, always intelligent and, not least, original' Angela Carter</b></p><p>The characters in Anne Enright's fierce and witty first collection of stories stand at an oblique angle to society. Full of desire, but out of kilter, their response to a dislocated reality is mutinous, wild, unforgettable.</p>