Cocktail
(Book - Regular Print)

"A John Metcalf book"

"A girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires. A divorced man distracts himself from the mess he?s made by flirting with a stranger. These intimate, immersive stories explore life?s watershed moments, in which seemingly insignificant details - a pot of hyacinths, a freshly painted yellow wall - and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves" --Publisher's website.