"In this ... volume, nothing is quite as it seems. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a lost man who bets on a horse that may--or may not--have spoken to him. Everything that readers love about the novels of Kate Atkinson is here: the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop. Witty and wise, with...

En esta aventura, Nelly hará de niñera del pequeñín de los monstruosos Grerk. ¡y de paso descubrirá lo que es un "querro"! Nelly's clients are wonderfully behaved even though they are monsters, but when she is asked to sit for a bad-tempered little boy, she calls for reinforcements from her other clients to show him how real monsters act.