"There's a brutal beauty to Tom Rowe's ability to drop all his armour and present emotionally intense stories filled with warmth, humour, and carnality on the edge of an abyss."
Each of the short stories in 'Alcoves Inside the Lining' focus on 11 people living very different lives, facing life-changing conflicts, the kind each of us will find ourselves embroiled in during our own lives. From a man lost in himself who seeks out a woman he once dated after seeing her in his store ('The Middle'), a photographer who lived his life through the people in front of his camera now finding himself...