'Thrilling, elegant and joyously macabre. You will love it to death'
- Holly Black, author of The Spiderwick Chronicles
'One of the joys of reading Gaiman is how he subverts our expectations of magic, horror, fantasy and the mundane'
- The Times
'This brief, dark, savoury adventure deserves to become a modern classic of children's writing'
- Independent on Sunday
'Suspenseful, well-told and touching'
- The Sunday Times