Eloise is too old to be called an orphan but insists she is bereft. With a cello, a car, some cats and a supply of Chicken Balti, she has devised for herself a half alive hermitude. George is England's only poet of ice hockey (not a full-time job). Pining for inspiration, he plays a lot of pinball and is chased around by his students. Fierce, funny and strange, Lucy Ellmann's third novel wanders through the darkest areas of human behavior and our century's history, asking how to live and how to love.
