Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

In the same year Ford was chosen as winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story for outstanding achievement in that genre. Having enrolled to study hotel management he switched to English.

Richard Ford (born February 16 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer.