Review "A captivating, funny and beautifully imagined fable" (Beth Jones Sunday Telegraph)"Startlingly beautiful...an eloquent example of the games a fine storyteller can play" (Independent on Sunday)"A beautiful book... It's like a bridge, built between generations, fabulous and strange and from the heart" (Neil Gaiman)"A bustling and minutely imagined fabular landscape, crammed with allegorical figures and places...its e