Book description
Stories are like Russian dolls; open them up, and in each one
you'll find another story.
Conjured from a wickedly imaginative pen, here is a new
collection of short stories that showcases Joanne Harris's exceptional
talent as a teller of tales, a spinner of yarns. Sensuous,
mischievous, uproarious and wry, these are tales that combine the
everyday with the unexpected; wild fantasy with bittersweet reality.
Come to the house where it is Christmas all year round; meet the
ghost who lives on a Twitter timeline; be spooked by a newborn baby
created with sugar, spice and lashings of cake. Worry for a young girl
in the Congo who rides the rapids to earn a crust of bread; and spy on
Norse gods battling each other for survival in modern Manhattan. In
her first short-story collection since Jigs & Reels, let
Joanne Harris ensnare and delight you with the variety and
inventiveness of her storytelling.
Joanne Harris is the author of Chocolat (made into an
Oscar-nominated film in 2000, with Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp),
and ten more bestselling novels. Her work is published in over fifty
countries and has sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide. Born
in Barnsley, of an English father and a French mother, she studied
Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge and spent fifteen years as
a teacher before (somewhat reluctantly) becoming a full-time writer.
She lives in Yorkshire with her family, plays bass in a band first
formed when she was sixteen, works in a shed in her garden, likes
musical theatre and old sci-fi, drinks rather too much caffeine,
spends far too much time online and occasionally dreams of faking her
own death and going to live in Hawaii.
www. joanne-harris. co. uk
