A S Byatt 
The Djinn In The Nightingale »s Eye 
Five Fairy Stories

**FEATURING THE STORY THAT INSPIRED NEW FILM THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING**
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.
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 Three Thousand Years of Longing starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.