A quick cheat read and a very good one at that.
Sophie is bored of her safe and predictable boyfriend Matthew. When she meets the eponymous Mr Sandman, a Haitian priest, on a boring day out at the beach that Matthew has arranged, she makes a wish for him to be less boring.
As is par for the course in these stories, be careful what you wish for is very quickly an appropriate piece of advice (albeit delivered far too late).
This is a fast moving and entertaining novella with good pacing, nicely drawn characters and an amusing sense of natural justice. The ending is very darkly funny.
Holliday's prose is uncluttered and easy to read, and her imagination is nice and twisted.
I had great fun in the 82 pages of this novella, and I think most sensible people will too.
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