The Corset & the Jellyfish: A Conundrum of Drabbles -- Nick Bantock

<b><i>[STARRED REVIEW] "Readers will find themselves delighted, intrigued, and often moved by the love, pain, and wonder of these finely written drabbles thoroughly extraordinary."</i></b><br>--<b>Kirkus</b> <p/><b><i>The internationally bestselling author of </i>Griffin & Sabine<i> returns with his newest literary mystery--a charming assemblage of his own illustrated stories. Each of the invitingly strange tales is paired with its own glyphic creature (perhaps created by Sabine herself).</i></b> <p/>Little is known of the fascinating manuscript that Nick Bantock has come to possess. It was discovered in an attic in North London, stuffed into a battered cardboard box, and unceremoniously delivered directly to Nick's doorstep. Inside the package lay one hundred evocatively absurd stories, one hundred humorous drawings of strangely familiar, quirkish glyphs, plus a cryptically poetic note signed only as "HH." (Possibly the well-known, eccentric billionaire, Hamilton Hasp?) <p/>In these stories-each consisting of precisely 100 words-strange creatures slip through alleyways, and eerie streets swallow people whole. Taken altogether, they may constitute a puzzle that no one has been able to solve thus far. Could there even be one missing story? <p/>For those perceptive readers with a curious mind, the celebrated author of <i>Griffin & Sabine</i> cordially invites you to find your own path through his beguiling conundrum of drabbles--or even to contribute one of your very own.<br><