Innehållsbeskrivning I: Coventry. Driving as metaphor -- Coventry -- On rudeness -- Making home -- Lions on leashes -- Aftermath -- II: A tragic pastime. Louise Bourgeois: suites on fabric -- I am nothing, I am everything -- Shakespeare's sisters -- How to get there -- III: Classics and bestsellers. Edith Wharton: The age of innocence -- D. H. Lawrence: The rainbow -- On Françoise Sagan -- Olivia Manning: The Balkan trilogy -- Eat, pray, love -- Never let me go -- On Natalia Ginzburg.