Another really interesting book, he’s onto a great idea of taking fairy tales and turning them into real stories (especially because I’m quite interested in the origin of the stories that have originally become our fairy tales, they have all been much altered from their original form). It was less complex than wicked, but had a much more gritty and ugly reality as he set it in a defitite time and place in our own history (the history of the Dutch tulip craze is also interesting – try ‘the tulip, the story of the flower than has made men mad’)