The Ladies Of Grace Adieu

The stories in The Ladies of Grace Adieu have a magic and a sleight of hand that keeps readers turning pages because they care about what happens to the characters . . . One day (it was the last day of Mr and Mrs Strange's visit to their brother) Mrs Field, Miss Tobias and Cassandra were out walking on the high, empty hills above Grace Adieu. Paracelsus believed in the efficacy of magic spells and all sorts of nonsense. In her twenties she had been a swan; in her thirties a vixen; and then in rapid succession a bitch, a viper, a cockatrice and, finally, a pig.