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A very personal wedding gift becomes a source of disputes; a tree faces two neighbors, who will be swept away by a growing hostility; a thirty-year-old is reluctant to leave the family home; a postman spies on the letters he delivers; an aid worker in Kenya has an unexpected adventure; a father and son find themselves in a difficult situation at an airport; A couple gets into a brawl over the purchase of a house; a fugitive from justice is fed up with the paradise in which he has hidden; two foreign women meet in Belfast in the heat of conflict... The diverse characters that populate the stories of Lionel Shriver live tense situations caused by fixation on property. For the effort to own real estate, objects or people. As is customary for the author, everyday situations can spill over at any time, and apparently more sane people are perfectly capable of losing their roles to unsuspected limits.