Queen MabThere is a changeling in this story, but who is it? Madeleine, a promising grad student, is newly married when her baby daughter Maud arrives perfect despite a traumatic labour. But just a few nights into their life, something seems amiss. Maud never stops crying. Her hunger is insatiable. Her eyes glint with a kind of ancient mischief. Could Maud be a fairy child, swapped when she wasn't paying attention? Is her real daughter elsewhere, dancing in

The South Devon Railway contacts Scotland Yard for their assistance

Its possible the victim could be one of two local men who have vanished the first

is a provocative

The hotel manager Mr Browning is trying to keep the peace but the guests are agitated

Mr Fleming's first full-length book since News from Tartary (1936) is very funny

she strives to give her parents the life they deserve

sowing chaos and exacting revenge

'An utterly spellbinding triumph from a master storyteller' Joseph O'Connor

The residents are facing annihilation

hilarious satire that exposes just how the corridors of power are really at work

It is a quest that leads Maisie back to her own bittersweet wartime love - and to the discovery that Michael Clifton may not have died in combat

author of Girl in Translation