Affairs of a Cardiovascular Nature

Terry Grimwood is an author who has made a name for himself with his very powerful human and wide-ranging fiction covering horror speculative dystopian and other styles. This mini-collection gathers together some of his more innovative and experimental short fiction from all across that range. The title story is a grotesquely hilarious absurdist and very British tale of love intrigue and the exchange of hearts that reads like a post-modern PG Wodehouse fever-dream. It is joined by a collection of miniatures in the form of monologues or dialogues ranging from a dystopian sales pitch and the political horrors revealed through a farcically unnerving interrogation to a quiet restaurant meeting where the topic of discussion could hardly be greater or more shattering. Affairs of a Cardiovascular Nature is an unusual example of British slipstream writing a complex and bittersweet confection that deserves to be taken slowly.