Brief Encounter

First published in 1975, this story tells of how a chance meeting in a café, a piece of grit delicately removed by a gentleman from a lady''s eye give birth to an affair... a brief yet unrelenting emotional tug-of-war between two people whose spontaneous desire clashes head-on with the ''facts'' of their existence.

There is Anna, married to Graham and happily content with her home life and two chil...