'Dipping into Miss Cross & Other Stories is like dipping into a box of strange and delicious biscuits or being offered a platter of unusual fruits that you don't know the name of but taste, in some aspects, familiar… an enticing, exciting, and enlivening read: a great book by a great writer—a big tick for Miss Cross.' — Mab Jones, Buzz Magazine
Norman Schwenk's animal stories are a long way from Disneyland. They focus on the strange, complicated links people forge with animals, and how they illuminate the even more mysterious links