'In the attic where the rain touched the roof softly on spring days and where you could feel the mantle of snow outside, a few inches away, on December nights, a thousand-time great grandmere existed. She did not live, nor was she entirely dead, she . . . existed.'
She is the grandmother of the Elliott family, which includes mind-readers, vampires and many others . . . maybe. In a strange old house, they gradually come together, mixing their arcane skills and life-styles, falling in and out of love and changing the world around them forever.
You have never seen their like before.
Ray Bradbury, doyen of fantastical fiction, returns with his first novel for many years, telling dark and exuberant tales of the Elliotts, about whom he has written for decades. Tales of there genesis and demise, their adventures and mishaps, their loves and their sorrows. Welcome to the world of a master storyteller at the height of has powers.
