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    The Steel Kiss: Tales of Love, Obsession, Madness and Deceit
    The Steel Kiss: Tales of Love, Obsession, Madness and Deceit
    The Steel Kiss: Tales of Love, Obsession, Madness and Deceit
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    The Steel Kiss: Tales of Love, Obsession, Madness and Deceit

    By Alex Woolf

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    Each of these nine stories explores a symptom of that pathology we call love. We meet a volatile woman whose husband betrays her once too often; a man who takes advantage of an amnesiac girl; a woman prepared to break a man’s spirit in order to win his heart; and a young man who obsesses about strangers on trains. We learn the corrosive power of secrets over the long course of a marriage, the way the pressure of years of conformity can explode in a single shocking act, and how love of the patriotic kind can, for a young soldier, end up brutalising the soul. By turns disturbing, funny, bittersweet and poignant, these are love stories of the darkest and most dangerous kind.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAUK Authors
    Release dateMay 27, 2014
    ISBN9781849897433
    The Steel Kiss: Tales of Love, Obsession, Madness and Deceit
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    Alex Woolf

    Alex Woolf is a senior lecturer in history at the University of St Andrews. He holds a BA in Medieval History and Medieval English, an MPhil in Archaeology and a PhD from the University of St Andrews. He is the author of a number of articles and books on medieval Scottish history, including From Pictland to Alba: Scotland, 789 to 1070, Scandinavian Scotland: 20 Years After and Beyondthe Gododdin: Dark Age Scotland in Medieval Wales.

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