Love and Other Conserved Quantities

Somewhere in the drizzle of the North-East Riding stands a university that has never quite recovered from being built. Its canteen soup develops opinions. Its lost-property office discovers that umbrellas, once surrendered, refuse to be lost. A grieving man chases a hat that obeys the uncertainty principle, and a woman who presses flowers for a living finds that time is not a corridor but a room s...