The Little Animals

I don't know if there's any way somebody could have told me about the content of this book, before I read it, which would have communicated how much I would enjoy it; the best they could have done might have been just to say, "It's by Sarah Tolmie." She writes about the rituals and chores of cultures strange to her readership and about her characters' encounters with magic and deep weirdness in the same way, with a deeply felt calm specificity. It transfixes me.