This is a very slight collection of five short stories set around Liverpool. The writing is pretty good and features some Liverpool slang I wasn't familiar with. Nothing wrong with that. I found "Peeling Spuds" to be the most satisfying of the bunch and "He Ain't Heavy" to be the worst. That story alone lost the book a full star. Each tale deals in the mundane dirty aspects of real life and is a good example of the possibilities for new writers introduced by eBooks in general and the Kindle in particular. There is promise in the best of these stories, and Veste's next outing will undoubtedly be an improvement. ( )