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The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night: an enchanting collection of modern fairy tales

`WHAT A BOOK. IT`S SO STRANGE AND MAGICAL AND THE WRITING IS JUST BEAUTIFUL` Louise O`Neill | `ENCHANTING AND ILLUMINATING` Carys Bray, author of A Song For Issy Bradley | `LIKE WALKING THROUGH A MIRROR` Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | `THIS BOOK IS FULL OF CHARACTER AND MAGIC, AND I FOUND MYSELF MESMERISED` Claire Fuller, author of Our Endless Numbered Days | `THESE STORIES ARE WEAVED TOGETHER LIKE SILVERY FISHING NETS. LIKE SHIMMERING, JEWEL-BRIGHT WORLDS` Helen McClory`These days, you can find anything you need at the click of a button. That`s why I bought her heart online.`Spirits in jam jars, mini-apocalypses, animal hearts and side shows. A girl runs a coffin hotel on a remote island. A boy is worried his sister has two souls. A couple are rewriting the history of the world. And mermaids are on display at the local aquarium.The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night is a collection of twelve haunting stories; modern fairy tales brimming with magic, outsiders and lost souls. `I`m fascinated by storytelling, and particularly fairy tales. How humans have always tried to explain things that they can`t possibly understand with, sometimes outrageous, stories` Jen CampbellFrom the bestselling author of Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops series and The Bookshop Book.

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