From the author of Mister Pip, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book and finalist for the Man Booker Prize, comes a collection written with Lloyd Joness trademark precision and imaginative reach. A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A couple give up their seats on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A husband enters a world i From the author of Mister Pip, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book and finalist for the Man Booker Prize, comes a collection written with Lloyd Joness trademark precision and imaginative reach. A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A couple give up their seats on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A husband enters a world imagined by his wife and pretends to be the man she loves. Lloyd Joness The Man in the Shedis a haunting collection of stories about family and longing. These extraordinary tales take conventional family life and tilt it sideways, delivering a memorable blend of the suburban and the surreal.