In Between the Sheets

<p><b>The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, <i>Sunday Times</i>-bestselling author Ian McEwan.</b><br><br>A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his victim's vengeful fantasies. A millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress – passive, yet beautiful – but the union soon becomes a nightmare of jealousy and despair. And an ape reflects on the relationship with a young female writer, mourning their fading love and musing on the fateful deceptions of art. In these seven stories of dream-like lucidity, the wasteland of the human psyche is mapped with deadly precision.<br><br><b>‘Resonant and frightening...totally original’<i> Observer</i></b><br><br><b>‘Exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing’ <i>The Times</i></b></p> <p><b>The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, <i>Sunday Times</i>-bestselling author Ian McEwan.</b><br><br>A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his victim's vengeful fantasies. A millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress – passive, yet beautiful – but the union soon becomes a nightmare of jealousy and despair. And an ape reflects on the relationship with a young female writer, mourning their fading love and musing on the fateful deceptions of art. In these seven stories of dream-like lucidity, the wasteland of the human psyche is mapped with deadly precision.<br><br><b>‘Resonant and frightening...totally original’<i> Observer</i></b><br><br><b>‘Exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing’ <i>The Times</i></b></p>