In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in: the landscape of victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutalit...In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in: the landscape of victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. Is "Delicate and confidently ironic.