A collection of six modern fairytales by the author of MATISSE STORIES and POSSESSION, which won the Booker Prize and Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize in 1990.

'A dreamy treat.... It is not merely strange, it is wondrous.' - Boston Globe

'Alternatingly erudite and earthy, direct and playful.... If Scheherazade ever needs a break, Byatt can step in, indefinitely.' - Chicago Tribune