Christopher Bradbury

Mayflies Christopher Bradbury

'Don't I want to make love to you? Of course I do! I'm not dead. Not quite. But I can't sleep with you. Between my need for frequent naps and my lack of energy, I couldn't even stay awake with you. And I'm married. Above all else, I'm married. Admittedly, my marriage is coughing like a cat choking on its farewell furball, but I can't just stand there and watch it die. I have to give it some sort of pat on the back.'And there lies the agony and the ecstasy for university lecturer Raley Street, a man locked in a cold marriage, enslaved by a midlife crisis and tempted by the beautiful student Jenny Summerleas to make it all go away. It's life as viewed by an ordinary man in all its comedic darkness and all its loving light.