As he waits to leave his partner and their two sons, Jay spends his time recalling the relationship and its highs and lows. "The frank embrace of guilt and sorrow in "Intimacy" lifts it into a league above the lads-behaving-badly school of fiction... Unlike so many of his fortysomething male counterparts, he has a rare and precious gift for character" "Independent". Kureishi's previous titles include "The Buddha Of Suburbia" and "The Black Album". His screenplays include "My Beautiful Laundrette" and, more recently, "My Son The Fanatic".