"I wrote ‘brilliant’ on the Contents page beside ‘The Grim Reaper’s Apprentice’ on first reading of the book, but on the second reading decided that all the tales are so ingenious in their way I wouldn’t have been able to choose between them at Mullahy’s Rock.” A.B., a former book editor.

Things start in a deceptively mundane way for two warring cousins who are persuaded to resolve their differences by betting on the outcome of a storytelling competition at Mullahy’s Rock. But thereafter they are transported into the strange and wonderful worlds of a succession of darkly humorous storytellers and find their very ordinary lives turned upside down as a result.  This is a very unusual book…

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