Description Shipping & Returns Reviews Description Fuelled by his piercing wit and unfaltering gaze, this new collection from Philip Ceallaigh is both a meditation on human frailty and an unflinching interrogation of loveof its losses and gains, and the surprising ways that it delivers purpose and meaning to our lives. Philip Ceallaigh has published more than fifty stories, most of which are collected here and in his two previous collections, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse and The Pleasant Light of Day. He is a recipient of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, among other awards. He lives in Bucharest. Shipping & Returns Reviews