The characters in David Constantine's fourth collection are often
delicately caught in moments of defiance. Disregarding their age, their
family, or the prevailing political winds, they show us a way of marking
out a space for resistance and taking an honest delight in it. Like
them, Constantine's bewitching, finely-wrought stories give us
permission to escape, they allow us to side-step the inexorable traffic
of our lives, and beseech us to take possession of the moment.