The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye: Five Fairy Stories
Author: A.S. Byatt
Gillian Perholt, an independent and sensible scholar, no longer young, is given a bottle of beautiful ‘nightingale’s eye’ glass by a Turkish friend. Inside it is trapped a huge (and very male) djinn, a magical genie who must grant her three wishes in return for his release. Gillian’s use of her wishes — she is an expert in fairy stories and in what can go wrong with wishe….Read More
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