Love stories are not always about hearts and flowers. In this deliciously different celebration of love, romance is all about having a good row (and not always having to say you're sorry). From trivial everyday quarrels, such as a dispute over a bride's new hat in Dorothy Parker's Here We Are and an argument about whether to close the screen door in Lydia Davis' Disagreement , to more serious arguments where the truth is in doubt, such as in Raymond Carver's Intimacy , relationships of every kind - devoted, comfortable, passionate, intimate, bad-tempered - are here.