From the author of the Egypt tetralogy, an epic bestseller about love and magic, about free will and predestination, about the role of the individual in a story woven by an invisible but powerful storyteller. Town clerk Smokey Barnable marries Daily Alice Drinkwater, the daughter of a children's writer, and goes to live with her in the uncharted Edgewood estate - a mysterious structure, which the deeper you go into it, the larger it becomes and seems to contain the surrounding forests and fields, and even the whole world. The heroes of "Little, Big", generation after generation, see themselves as characters in a certain Tale, feel the unobvious co-presence of supernatural forces and unconsciously act out a romantic opera based on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", the libretto of which could have been written by Lewis Carroll.