Thrilling, elegant and joyously macabre. You will love it to death

Holly Black

One of the joys of reading Gaiman is how he subverts our expectations of magic, horror, fantasy and the mundane ... A memorable, captivating read

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

The best book Neil Gaiman has ever written. How he has managed to combine fascinating, friendly, frightening and fearsome in one fantasy I shall never know, but he has pulled it off magnificently

Diana Wynne Jones

Like a bite of dark Halloween chocolate, this novel proves rich, bittersweet and very satisfying

Washington Post