The Lion From Rio

Shuttle's poetry is exceptional for its positive attitude towards human love, which she writes about with a startling combination of sensibility, irony, and practicality. "She is certainly one of the finest writers living in Britain today."--Anne StevensonPenelope Shuttle is a poet and novelist. Her previous collections of poems are The Orchard Upstairs and The Child-Stealers. She is also the author of five novels and two radio plays.