A collection of Marie Joseph's short stories, previously published in magazines in the 1960s and 1970s The stories include the husband who has spent his life surrounded by women and longs for a son and companion a couple who are brought together with unexpected help from a feline source and a younger sister's wedding which brings faint misgivings and memories from the past All are told in the sepia of nostalgia and tinged with the irony that are Marie Joseph's hallmarks