Mortal Coils

Mortal Coils is a collection of five pieces, which were written by Aldous Huxley in the 1920s. The first one, ¿The Giaconda Smile,¿ is a short murder story. ¿Permutations among the Nightingales¿ is a play concerning amorous problems had by patrons of a certain establishment. ¿The Tillotson Banquet¿ tells of an old artist who was thought to be dead. ¿Green Tunnels¿ is about the boredom of a young girl on holiday with her family. ¿Nuns at Luncheon¿ is a story being told of a nun falling in love. The story mocks the writer¿s process, a concept Huxley used in his ¿Crome Yellow.¿ Each story is read by the talented narrator, Simon Vance.