Offers a glimpse of how the inspirational and the creative juices interact * Spectator * Wonderfully innovative, creative and fun * The Times * Soars to some hugely enjoyable climaxes * Irish Times * Winterson's stellar cast delivers plenty of incident as well as atmosphere to power this upbeat collection * Financial Times *With Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Barry, Anne Enright, Alexander McCall Smith, Andrew O'Hagan, Kate Mosse, Andrew Motion, Colm Toibin, Joanna Trollope, Ali Smith, Jeanette Winterson & more In this stunning collection, the best and brightest writers working today reimagine familiar stories from the greatest operas. Don Giovanni's ghost haunts a young boy, Fidelio meets Porgy and Bess and two hapless men stage a Mozartian love test. Long-lost loves enter the dating game and undying witches finally get grey hairs. Funny, macabre or irreverent, these stories are charming for any opera lover and a beguiling collection in their own right.