Outline Maggie O'Farrell including the Mad Hatter and

including the Mad Hatter and his tea party

has bizarre prophetic dreams about a decapitated scientist

But as monsters emerge from the horrors of the past

Predictably

and a reflection on what it means – and what it takes – to be a woman leader in contemporary politics

Outline Maggie O'Farrell including the Mad Hatter andA woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storytellers talk of their loves and ambitions and pains, their anxieties, their