Plume contemporary fiction

While working as an au pair for a family with four children, Lucy, a young woman from the West Indies, comes to terms with the problems in her employers' lives and her feelings about her own sexuality.

Contains nine darkly comic stories of working-class men in 1950s Nottingham.

In 1830, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave leading a dissolute life in New Orleans, finds himself forced into marriage.