The King's English Bookshop

Enter the magical world of famed fairytale author Olive Wellwood. The time is the seemingly enchanted turn of the last century. The setting is, for the most part, Todefright, a lovely if eccentric English country house. The cast of characters is made up of the family and friends of Olive Wellwood: her husband, her sister, her vast brood of children, her fellow artists. But enchantment has its dark side, and as Olive writes and her children grow, the woods in which they wander take on an ever-darker hue in this brilliant and seductive tale of love and romance, secrets and betrayal, culture and politics, art and war and life. This is a big book, nearly 700 dense pages, and each page is a revelation: erudite, intense, frightening, enlightening.