'Fresh and energetic . . . A finely-crafted, and highly enigmatic story . . . Haunting in its ambiguity.' Andrew Michael Hurley

'No vine grows such fine grapes as that which is planted over some source of corruption.'

When a young vicar takes up a living in a country village, his wife is initially amused by the local witch, Mrs Orpin, who claims to know and see things. But when her husband begins to change, she finds herself irresistibly turning to Mrs Orpin for help . . .