Acclaimed novelist, short story writer, and poet, David Huddle captivates us with a new collection. Not: A Trio is a sequence of three related stories that, taken together, form a unified work of fiction. This faceted approach is especially suited to a work that reveals the intricate connections among Danny Marlow, Claire McClelland, and Ben McClelland. Danny, Claire, and Ben are thoughtful people who know each other well -- yet hardly at all. Danny narrates the first story, introducing the reader to Claire, a therapist who has, he says, lived a life that would drop most men in their tracks....

Can we ever truly know another person, however well loved? Brainy, decent, funny, and likeable, the members of Horace Houseman's family and his closest friend possess many-layered inner lives that they reveal to no one else. David Huddle's tenth work of fiction enters the minds of Horace, Eve, Hannah, Clara, Bill, and others, leaping back and forth across fifty years and intersecting the vantage points in a kaleidoscopic vision of a contemporary clan (and their secrets. Julia Alvarez says, "Huddle takes us into the intimate heart of a family, the desires that we keep from each other and often...

Can we ever truly know another person, however well loved? Brainy, decent, funny, and likeable, the members of Horace Houseman's family and his closest friend possess many-layered inner lives that they reveal to no one else. David Huddle's tenth work of fiction enters the minds of Horace, Eve, Hannah, Clara, Bill, and others, leaping back and forth across fifty years and intersecting the vantage points in a kaleidoscopic vision of a contemporary clan (and their secrets. Julia Alvarez says, "Huddle takes us into the intimate heart of a family, the desires that we keep from each other and often...

Approaching midlife, after rising to comfortable suburban life, Edgar Bonjour becomes involved with a drug-trafficking Puerto Rican motorcycle gang from his old neighbourhood and is brought down by an affair with a woman in the gang. News of his murder leads to introspection among other members of the Puerto Rican Bonjour clan, all descended from three now nameless French brothers remembered only by their surname. Though extended generations of the Bonjours dispersed, some settling in New York, they remain connected by the shared lore of their ancestry, that starting with the three original...

As gradual as a cloud passing or a blossom opening, this is the story of a woman very slowly dying, accompanied by her husband and an astonishing number of offspring, from infants to young adults. David Huddle's nineteenth book explores how children grieve, and shows how the wit and courage of even the littlest brothers and sisters can be a source of resilience. Familial conversation composes an intimate requiem, transforming loss into comprehension. Only one of our finest writers could manage this delicate material. THE FAULKES CHRONICLE is subtle, and autumnal novel - made of momentary...