About the book: 2005 / About the story included in this anthology, the writer says the following: ""Standard Gauge" was written for Mark Atkins' album "Thirteen" The idea of ​​the book was to send thirteen writers each a photograph of a naked woman from the Atkins collection with a request to write a story “illustrating” the image... For a long time people have been calling Shepherd's Bush - the rather dirty area where the action takes place - the new Notting Hill, a trendy area a mile and a half away. Much effort has been made to glamorize Shepherd's Bush, but as long as drunks and loonies continue to rub shoulders with the BBC (and perhaps get confused), the area will never lose the controversy that makes it so interesting».