The Fool and Other Moral Tales by Anne Serre | Published today 🎭

'I believe in magic figures and distrust them. They have powers, of that you can be sure. A color can derail a train, a figure observing you can turn the world upside down.' – Anne Serre, The Fool and Other Moral Tales

The Fool and Other Moral Tales
by Anne Serre
translated from the French by Mark Hutchinson

published today in the UK

ISBN 978-1-8380141-5-5 | 228 pages paperback |£10.99 RRP

‘I love the way Anne Serre’s mind works, and her slyly seductive approach to narrative.’ — Adam Mars-Jones

'The three unique stories in The Fool and Other Tales have a folk tale sense of the familiar and the perverse. They invite us into something playful, but it is the reader who gets toyed with.'– Rónán Hession, Irish Times

‘If the first two stories are moral firecrackers, ‘The Wishing Table ’, the third and final piece in the collection, is a hand grenade.’ — Tristan Foster, Music & Literature

'Anne Serre is a remarkable and unusual writer... The Fool & Other Moral Tales... are lyrical and disturbing, wonderful and terrible, arousing and devastating. Their hallucinatory, and at times nightmarish quality, is beautifully rendered by translator Mark Hutchinson.' – Georgia de Chamberet, BookBlast