From Journey Prize finalist Andrew Gray comes a collection of 11 unforgettable stories: probing portraits of outsiders and lost souls who worship at the altar of medical science while secretly praying for redemptive love. A couple whose marriage has been fractured by a car accident; a lonely surgeon who falls in love with a comatose patient; a time-capsule thief who wanders from town to town, seducing librarians, these stories explore the boundaries between the present and the future, between couples and friends, our fragility and our strength.