What sad, appalling, and surprising things people do in the name of love, and for the sake of love. These short stories give us love won and love lost, love revenged, love thrown away, love in triumph, love in despair. It might be love between men and women, children and parents. even humans and cats; but whichever it is, love is a force to be reckoned with.
- The garden party : Maeve Binchy
- Roman fever : Edith Wharton
- The legacy : Virginia Woolf
- A painful case : James Joyce
- The kimono : H. E. Bates
- A shocking accident : Graham Greene
- Horrors of the road : Fay Weldon
- Ming' s biggest prey : Patricia Highsmith
- The children : John Morrison
- Mabel : Somerset Maugham