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Illustrated by
Quentin Blake.
After eating a candy pig with a philosophical nature, a mouse suddenly falls in love with a grandfather clock. When an owl eats the mouse, the lovesickness is transferred, and so on. Each sufferer's personality helps ground this existential love story so that what might have been bizarre is matter-of-fact and affecting. Blake's watercolors are understated yet highly expressive.