The reasons for its success are immediately obvious. It has enormous charm...narrated with a beguiling simplicity and intimacy, both tender and evocative.

Extremely moving...This is a novel that will sweep you off your feet should you be lucky enough to read it.

The freshest, most fascinating novel I've read in years

A work of rare enchantment which could charm a smile out of a stone

So good I promise you will want to read it more than once

Lingering, sensuous and provocative, Christopher's unusual fantasy is a masterful exercise in the necromancy of poetry ripened into prose