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A richly atmospheric fantasy set across one day, as a ballet troupe of lost souls perform an ancient dance for the faerie realms, knowing they could be snatched away by their audience of faerie princes, imps and sprites at any moment. As dawn breaks on All Souls Day, the lingering mists part to unveil an unending vista of serried gravestones. Between them looms a theatre like a haunted house and the sleek iron carapace of a steam train-the Pearl. On board are the cast, orchestra, and crew of a traveling ballet company, performing The Apple and the Pearl. As he stumbles toward the restaurant car the lighting director, Zach, asks the new recruit, Lara, ""Have you ever worked in ballet before?"" ""Have you had any contact with the supernatural?"" Everyone from the principal ballerina to the first violinist, from the wardrobe mistress to the newest members of the corps de ballet, have committed their lives to the perfection of the show. But every night they must also confront the malevolent glamor of their audience of Fae creatures only too eager to snatch them away into the Otherworld.

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Rym Kechacha is the author of Dark River and To Catch a Moon, and a teacher. Her debut novel, Dark River, was shortlisted for the BFA Best Novel and Best Newcomer awards. She previously trained as a ballet dancer and danced professionally with Northern Ballet for three years. Born in Epping, east London, she now lives in Norwich with her family, a lot of books, and a much-loved and messy garden. Jilly Bond has narrated over 500 audiobooks, receiving four Golden Earphones Awards, as well as the NYC Big Book Award for Even in Darkness. She appears in radio drama for the BBC and was part of the award-winning cast of Land Skeins (OnComm Most Innovative Audiodrama). She's performed on stage throughout the UK, most notably at the National Theatre in Island; at the Soho, Finborough and Globe Theatres; Southwark Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Coventry Belgrade, Manchester Lowry, Tobacco Factory Bristol, King's Theatre Glasow, and the Edinburgh Fringe, among others. She's also toured Germany, and been resident at the English Theatre of Hamburg, as Mrs. Warren in Mrs. Warren's Profession and Emilia in Othello. Most recently she has played Shylock in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and Scrooge in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens at the open-air Roman Theatre in St Albans and Denise in the revival of Trestle at London's Jack Theatre, for which her performance was Offie-nominated.

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