<p>'Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.' ? Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet<br>That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. She screamed as she ran.<br>Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. First, the river floods in June. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. But the flood is only the...