In the Night Garden

I have to largely quote a friend reviewing the same book, who wrote

"A Chinese box of a tale, with one tale containing another, which contains yet another, sometimes to the depth of six or seven tales. And Valente has this way of mentioning rather wondrous magical things in an almost matter-of-fact way, and describing the ordinary as if it were exotic, which I liked a lot."

I can't think of a better way to put it.