Set throughout Glasgow, Colette Paul's new collection of short stories follows an assortment of young and young-at-heart people negotiating the pitfalls of grown-up life – unplanned pregnancies, sick dogs, frenemies at work, and returning to places that no longer feel like home.

Unfailingly witty and compassionate, A Complete Success transforms mundane moments in ordinary people's lives into something extraordinary, expertly capturing the isolation, miscommunication and strained relationships of middle age, the resonating impact of childhood failures, and the untranslatable nature of our pasts.

In this compelling portrait of the complexity of modern Scottish life, Paul re-affirms her status as one of Scotland's most essential writers of short fiction.