A Collector of Hearts (by Sally Quilford)

I have liked all the books I’ve read by Sally Quilford on my Kindle, and downloaded several of them when she has offered them free for a short period. However it sometimes takes me a while to find one of them to read; it happens most often when I’m travelling. That’s the case for ‘A Collector of Hearts’, a novella that I apparently downloaded about a decade ago but have only just read.

Sally Quilford writes in quite a variety of genres, but her main gift is that of characterisation. She weaves a...