Margaret Drabble

Mysteries and hauntings

Javier Marias’s elegant new volume is a collection of ghost stories, but its alluring dust jacket, illustrating the first tale, shows us a sunny midsummer image of a woman in a bikini admiring herself on a beach.

  • While the Women are Sleeping

    Javier Marias

    Chatto, pp. 129

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