This Christmas, ‘hand yourself over to be enchanted’ (Guardian) by the English genius behind witchcraft classic Lolly Willowes. ‘Worth GBP9.99 for the book jacket alone (trust Faber) … It’s exquisite and shivery, just like the stories within … By turns creepy, melancholy, horrifying, tragic and beltingly romantic.’ Sunday Times’One of our finest writers.’ Neil Gaiman’One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years.’ Sarah Waters’Diminutive masterpieces … Hand yourself over to be enchanted.’ Guardian’Extraordinary, lucid wildness.’ Helen MacDonald’Glinting perfection’ The TimesDecades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a cafe before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend’s kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reve