The Near Witch Condition:Like New to be the Beauty of

to be the Beauty of the story

No one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals

This new edition includes a foreword by Richard Kearney

Will Weir score a spot

In The Art of the Good Life

The Near Witch Condition:Like New to be the Beauty ofThe Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children. If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company. And there are no strangers in the town of Near. These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life. But when an actual strangera boy who seems to fade like smokeappears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true. The next night,