Book description
In a tiny farm on the edge of the miserable village of East Grasby, Isabella Nagg is trying to get on with her tiny, miserable existence. Dividing her time between tolerating her feckless husband, caring for the farm's strange animals, cooking up "scrunge," and crooning over her treasured pot of…
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The grimalkin, who is a cat only in the sense that a dragon is a lizard. The goblins. The nod to Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market.”
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