Elson is drinking to numb the pain of his broken marriage. His ex-wife lies in a stranger's bed, lonely and waiting for dawn. Their son Richard, a young gay poet, is stunted by a fear of artistic failure. And then there is Chloe. The daughter. The one in love. The one in trouble with the law. The one on the run.

In Between Days is Andrew Porter's long-awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed short-story collection The Theory of Light and Matter.

Elson is drinking to numb the pain of his broken marriage. His ex-wife lies in a stranger's bed, lonely and waiting for dawn. Their son Richard, a young gay poet, is stunted by a fear of artistic failure. And then there is Chloe. The daughter. The one in love. The one in trouble with the law. The one on the run.

This is a novel about the vagaries of love and family, about betrayal and forgiveness, about the possibility and impossibility of coming home.

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ISBN13: 9781915743664
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 132
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Publisher: MACK
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
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