The title story, which the sceptical Doctor who tells it never quite believes, concerns a fairy from the Breton uplands and her strange effect on modern English lives. Alongside it are five tales of ordinary people in odd corners: The Street of the Blank Wall, His Evening Out, The Lesson, Sylvia of the Letters and The Fawn Gloves.
Jerome in his later, more wistful vein, blending whimsy with mystery and sentiment. Download the free EPUB.