"There's a brutal beauty to Tom Rowe's ability to drop all his armour and present emotionally intense stories filled with warmth, humour, and carnality on the edge of an abyss."
Each of the 11 short stories in Tom Rowe's first collection deal with people going through change in their lives, from a man lost in himself who seeks out a woman he once dated after thinking he saw her in his store, a photographer who lived his life through the people in front of his camera now finding himself without identity to an older man dealing with his wife's ever-deepening dementia, each story offers a different take on a time that will come to us all sooner or later; transition. Each story offers honest, realistic tales with a twist of magic in the prose and oozes pain, hope, humour and human spirit.
'Alcoves inside the lining' also features a preface from Dave Louden, author of Lost Angeles, Bone Idol and White Mexicans.