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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. The Man in the Shed is a haunting collection of stories about family. love and longing. These extraordinary tales take conventional life and tilt it sideways, delivering a memorable blend of the real and the surreal. Lloyd Jones is the author of several novels and short story collections which include MISTER PIP, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.