The Manet Girl

The stories in "The Manet Girl" explore sexual relations - from both male and female points of view - in the present, but sometimes with a backdrop of several decades. Stories of desire and confusion - other men and other women - sit alongside stories of art - galleries, studios, allusions to painters - which gets in the way as least as often as it illuminates. Choices are made, in the knowledge that distractions may be the most important things of all.