The American No : 'Richly imagined and extraordinarily affecting... Everett is a terrific storyteller' Hadley Freeman, Sunday Times

'Full of kindness, even tenderness... He is a brilliant writer: opulently gossipy as few are these days, but also truthful, witty, wise and stoical' Rachel Cooke, Observer'Everett is a brilliant writer - funny, waspish, warm and seductive' Camilla Long, The Times '[An] eccentric and exquisite new collection of stories' TatlerRichly imagined and extraordinarily affecting...Everett is a terrific storyteller' Hadley Freeman, Sunday TimesEight stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, hope and rejection, from a writer at the height of his powers.In Rupert Everett's first, glorious collection of stories, he takes us on an exhilarating journey with a cast of extraordinary characters.A blackly humorous story of a chaotic and emotional funeral in Paris.Oscar Wilde's last night in Paris, vividly evocative, unflinching and elegiac.A middle-aged American-Russian countess who confronts sex and age in a Wiltshire teashop.The ferociously unforgiving life of an L.A. talent agency and the unexpecte