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.