Discover a novelist that Neil Gaiman describes as ‘an astonishingly smart writer’.


When a chance meeting with a stranger leads to an offer of a room in exchange for telling her stories, Molly jumps at the chance.


Slowly she builds a new, eccentric family around herself: Tim, her secretive boyfriend, who just might be a spy; Miranda, the lovelorn hairstylist; Liz, the lusty librarian; Mr. Roberts, landlord and listener; and his French wife, Mrs. Roberts.


Much to Molly's surprise, she finds the stories she tells now are her key to creating a completely different life. Suddenly, her future is full of endless possibilities. The trouble is, Molly's not the only one telling tales. And the truth is always stranger than fiction.


Sarah Salway's witty, finely-tuned and poignant story of many stories is a uniquely entrancing chronicle.