A lushly imagined, sensual novel about memory, desire, and the power of storytelling, from a Booker Prize nominee. Genevi?ve is an outsider, raised in an orphanage, now living an isolated existence as a maid to the widowed Madame Patin in a small French village. A teller and collector of stories, she is entranced by Madame Patin's oft-told folktales, which mask cunning and doom beneath beauty. As Genevi?ve grows into a woman, her life becomes both...