How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love - Hardcover

Together they assert that love is more heart-breaking and transforming than the word necessarily conveys. * Observer * Together they assert that love is more heart-breaking and transforming than the word necessarily conveys. * Observer * All seven [stories] score an outright win in the battle to make the ethereal real. * Country Life * Startlingly original stories * Sunday Express S Magazine * With prose that is occasionally astonishing, these stories muddy the waters of the literature on love in the best possible way. * Financial Times *

'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' Zelda Fitzgerald Love is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for family, to Mania, a frenzied, obsessive love. Seven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love. The publication of How Much the Heart Can Hold is heralded by a Sceptre short story competition. The winning story, based on a concept of love, will be published in the paperback edition.