This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You

Tender, sad, funny, and riveting, this is an astonishing collection of work by one of Britain''s finest contemporary writers.A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood. A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman''s windscreen. A boy sets fire to a barn. These aren''t the sort of things you imagine happening to someone like you. But sometimes they do.Set in the flat a...