The Djinn In The Nightingale'S Eye Av A S Byatt

<p><b>**FEATURING THE STORY THAT INSPIRED NEW FILM <i>THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING**</i></b><br><br>A S Byatt''s fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in POSSESSION - ''The Glass Coffin'' and ''Gode''s Tale'' of the Breton Naie des Trepasses - to be published separately.<br><br>Here they take their place with three other stories with medieval and middle eastern settings. The title story, ''The Djinn and the Nightingale''s Eye'', a long story about an Englishwoman in Turkey who unwittingly releases a genie from his bottle, is a reflection on women''s lives, on magic and on the power of storytelling itself, and has inspired the new film <i>Three Thousand Years of Longing</i> starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.</p>