Heartbreak, family and how to survive them – and just why is everyone pairing up and having babies? A deliriously surreal journey into the mind of Sara Pascoe.

A hyperactive boy and his best friend, a slow-witted youth with an affinity for horses, start collecting scrap metal for a shady dealer.

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about…