The new collection from the winner of the 2009 Frank O'Connor Award.

Van Booy to visit the UK several times during 2010 for festivals and readings.

Simultaneous publication by Harper Perennial in New York.

The Secret Lives of People in Love is an evocative story collection set in present day New York City, Wales, Cornwall, Paris, Rome and Greece. Simon Van Booy explores love’s labour and love’s loss with masterful simplicity and in touching detail. His prose is spare, economical and evanescent. His characters are often unbearably lonely, vulnerable and private. Their realities are so filled with memories that they seem transcendental and independent of time. Simon Van Booy’s voice is reverent, haunting and profoundly humane.

Simon van Booy grew up in rural Wales and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times and New York Post. He is the author of Love Begins in Winter.

Details

• ISBN 9781905636945
• Publication date: 10th June 2010
• Format: B format paperback
• Pages: 288
• RRP: £7.99

Rights information

• UK only

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