The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits

Resurrecting buried scandals, audacious hoaxes, and private tragedies, Emma Donoghue has written a sequence of short stories about particular moments in the history of the British Isles. Here artists mix with poisoners and countesses rub shoulders with cross-dressers, vicars, and revolutionaries; the Second Coming is proclaimed in Scotland, and a miniature girl becomes a tiny skeleton in a London museum.