Whole Story & Other Stories

There was a man dwelt by a churchyard. Well, no, okay, it wasn't always a man; in this particular case it was a woman. There was a woman dwelt by a churchyard. Though, to be honest, nobody really uses that word nowadays. Everybody says cemetery. And nobody says dwelt any more. In other words: There was once a woman who lived by a cemetery. Every morning when she woke up she looked out of her back window and saw - Actually, no. There was once a woman who lived by - no, in - a second-hand bookshop. She lived in the flat on the first floor and ran the shop which took up the whole of downstairs. [...] (From the publisher)