The Rest of Your Life and Everything That Comes With It

A yellow elephant appears in an apartment and shakes up the life of a woman unhappy in her marriage.

A bored housewife finds herself unsettled by the foreign student who rents a spare room.

A single mother goes to great lengths to find out the terrible truth about her teenage son.

A teenager discovers a dark, compulsive desire while on a holiday job.

O Thiam Chin, the Frank O'Connor Award longlisted author of Never Been Better, delves into the hidden worlds of people caught in pivotal moments of their lives, in which everything they have held and believed are finally revealed for what they are, inevitably changing the course of their lives. From the breaking of long-held traditions to urban ennui, from the frankly erotic to an aching search for reconciliation, O depicts the strange, complicated facets of love in its different forms through these twelve new incisive and resonant stories.