\'Impossible to summarise and delightfully absorbing, Hadley\'s book is comfortably the most unexpected History book of the year\' Sunday Times A luminous journey through a thousand years of folklore and English history.. \'Impossible to summarise and delightfully absorbing, Hadley\'s book is comfortably the most unexpected History book of the year\' Sunday Times A luminous journey through a thousand years of folklore and English history.