The Ladies of Grace Adieu

This is a collection of short stories set in an England where practical magic is a learned craft and fairies still steal, bargain, and punish. Village women, country gentlemen, and occasional historical figures meet fairy brides, borrowed horses, and witches whose knowledge is local and dangerous. Typical pieces turn on a duke who loses a mount, a charcoal-burner's encounter with a forgotten king, or three ladies in Gloucestershire who use more power than their neighbours guess. There is no continuous plot. The book is a set of fairy tales of manners and revenge, not a single novel and not a treatise on folklore.

Bound in red cloth gilt printed on cover with a design by the artist. Colour printed fold-out endpapers with a different design for the front and back. Red slipcase printed with a colour picture by the artist. (Signed by the author on a tipped in sheet).