A Spell for Living by Melissa Mitcheson

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Melissa Mitcheson’s debut collection of eight bewildering and uncanny short tales is a true one of a kind. A child hides from their mother in a cavernous old tree, mischievous ornamental angels play tricks on their beholders, a fox shares its heartbreaking woodland secrets, a general’s pregnant wife watches on as the sea destroys an army, a labyrinthine fairground withholds the keys to a family mystery; A Spell For Living is a whole planet apart…

“These stories are spells, and the unsettling strangeness and beauty of their magic is a mysterious delight…”

Jeff Young, author of Latchkey, and Ghost Town

£10.99