though I appreciate much of Winterson's novel-length work, I was wary in beginning this colection of short fiction edited by her. It started off with several interesting and pleasant to read stories, but as a whole, offered somewhat insipid, uninsightful writing. Perhaps this because I was expecting or hoping for a driving force of surreality and otherworldly characters who carried themselves strongly and had fully developed characteristics, much like found in The Passion or Sexing the Cherry. Unfortunately, I found the collection much more like The World & Other Places or Written On The Body--without much to pull me through and keep me reading. This book, in my opinion, is only for the Winterson connisseur.