“They are tart, amusing and charming, if now and then a touch irreverent. They are modern folk tales with a twist: the devil is good-natured, a sultan falls in love with a potato, and a king sends his love-struck son by jet to Moscow.”
“But Miss Josephine shook her off and held up the umbrella and shot it open, and out upon the floor, in the bright light that came from the hall lamp, fell jam tarts and iced cakes and biscuits and scones.”