Russell Hoban

Recently widowed and increasingly lonely, Roswell Clark's life had arrived at the point when he felt he needed a tattoo. His ideal image was that of a bat featured on an eighteenth-century bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum, but strangely, on a visit to the museum, he encountered a woman called Sarah Varley, who …

Amaryllis Night and Day is a 2001 novel by Russell Hoban, incorporating elements of magic realism and romance.