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.