Love

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGER

Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. This revised edition has lost none of Angela Carter's haunting power to evoke the ebb of the 1960s, and includes an afterword which describes the progress of the survivors into the anguish of middle age.

Short and strange, this is a story about a dark and depraved love triangle: Annabel lives with both her young, beautiful husband, Lee, and his demonic brother, Buzz.

Their cohabitation produces inescapable, dangerous emotional energy, contained within two rooms. Annabel is a fearful, ethereal artist entirely in her own world. Buzz is a ragged camera-wielding man of sharp intelligence and profound self-absorption. Lee is a simple boy who understands neither his wife nor his brother. He is also having an affair with another woman, a betrayal with the power to warp even further their dark and perverse love triangle...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGER

'A stylish tale about a fatal love triangle in provincial Bohemia' Guardian