The Juniper Tree

While I wasn't as charmed by this one as I was by Our Spoons Came From Woolworths, this was very good - Comyns is very good. I read the fairy tale before reading this, just in case (I read this one: https://fairytalez.com/the-juniper-tree/), and I'm glad I did as it did help at points, but I don't think you'd really miss anything if you didn't read the story first; it was more just sort of looking for Easter eggs in the book than anything.

Bella was a bit prickly of a protagonist, always understandably, but it made it hard at times. I wanted more of some of the other characters (Stephen, Mary, Peter), but can't complain about what we did get.