# Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction

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- Authors: [Alison MacLeod](https://www.bookquiver.com/alison-macleod)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2007-09-27

## Description

Sexy, tender, funny and haunting by turns, the stories in Alison MacLeod's daring new collection are tales of lovers, would-be lovers and lovers gone wrong. Here we discover ECT patient Gloria, who falls for her anaesthetist, 'Dr Numb'; the cerebral Nick, who chases after the heavily pregnant Katie at an Ikea sale; and the legendary lovers Heloise and Abelard re-imagined for the twenty-first century. With settings that range from a cheap Paris café to London's Hayward Gallery, and from the Brighton seafront to the Nova Scotia coast, these stories are at times magical, at times grittily real, but always affecting.

## Editions

### Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4101-606-1
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2007-09-27
- Language: en_GB