Herb 'n' Lorna

This very funny novel - as graceful, complicated and exhilarating as a quadrille - is an appreciation of folly... It is all about sex and sex, in HERB N' LORNA, It means everything in life that is good in craft and art and imagination and hard work and humour and friendship and curiosity and loyalty and love. Eric Kraft is an exacting comic novelist whose work is happy and expansive' The New York Times Book Review The kind of sweetness and passion and laughter Kraft draws from these ordinary lives is rare and endearing. HERB N LORNA is the happiest of books - not to mention the sexiest' The Washington Post A whimsical investigation into the past An exhilarating comic novel that is both marvellously sly and enormously good-natured. A wonderful love story... but there is much more to it than that Loony and beguiling' San Francisco Chronicle 'Fans of Kraft will send up a cheer at their hero's rollicking, fond story about his grandparents and then- secret passion... He keeps Herb 'n' Loma at the heart of his wise and humorous, affectionate and witty novel' Publishers Weekly.