Miss Keaton And Other Beasts

Five extraordinary children are the main characters in these darkly-evocative tales.

Set in an unspecified Gothic period and written with an exquisite lyricism, the fantastical and the everyday converge in these five interconnected stories. With the trigger of the birth of a baby, Teresa Colom creates an imaginary world, sometimes cruel, but full of tenderness and humour. Colom’s well-crafted, lyrical prose looks unflinchingly and tenderly at our longing to be parents, at our cruelty and our blinding love, at our obsessions and nightmares. Above all, these enigmatic tales remind us of the richness that those who are different bring to our world.