Pouvez-Vous Nous Prêter Votre Mari

ISBN 0140030301

Famous author William Harris is spending the fag-end of the season at Antibes

finishing his first attempt at historical biography, but he becomes more

interested and involved in the antics of two homosexual interior decorators

intent on stealing Poopy Travis’s honeymoon husband. Which leaves him free to

fall in love with Poopy herself.

A widow and a divorcee tipsily discuss the inadequacy of men in general and

their husbands in particular, deciding that women have much more to offer each

other by way of variety in sexual love.

A wife holidays alone in Jamaica’s cheap season idly hoping for excitement but

finding the only man she can have an affair with is far too old and frightened

of the dark.

Affairs, obsessions, grand passions and tiny ardours . . . this collection

contains some of Greene’s saddest observations on the hilarity of sex.