Two Serious Ladies

*### I am going on a trip. Wait until I tell you about it. it's terrible.*

'Jane Bowles's literary output, small but perfect, puts her on a stylistic planet all her own' New Yorker

'My favourite book. I can't think of a modern novel that seems more likely to become a classic'
Tennessee Williams

'The book I give as a gift. It feels like giving someone an exotic fruit'
Sheila Heti**
Miss Goering, an eccentric, impulsive New York heiress, resides in her house and tries not to be unhappy.

Mrs Copperfield, an anxious, dutiful married woman, has a great fear of drowning, of lifts, of intruders in the night.

Two serious ladies, nothing is natural for them and anything is possible.

For Mrs Copperfield - a trip to Panama, where she abandons her husband for love of a local prostitute. For Miss Goering - a move to a squalid little house on an island and a series of sordid encounters with strangers. Both go to pieces -and both realise this is something they've wanted to do for years.

With an Introduction by Naoise Dolan