Ray Bradbury called this 1985 novel, "Absolutely first rate. Absolutely wonderful", when it was first published in 1985. And The New Yorker described it as "a wild, poetic exhalation that sparkles and hoots and flies". Strange things and mysterious events are happening to the seashore rustics in the Dorset fishing town of Rams Horn, whose lives are dominated by lust and other dark forces they can't quite comprehend.