The Enchanted, Rene Denfeld

An unnamed prison, a death row inmate: who was a lifer before the ‘incident’ and used to spend all his free time in the prison library. He contrasts the brutality of prison life with the ability to roam through the literary images stored in his head.

Not all are prisoners. There are the fallen priest, the warden, the corrupt guard and the lady. The prisoner worries for the lady, her job is to exonerate death row inmates and her latest project is York, who thinks the world would be better without him in it.

The enchanted is a strangely beautiful little novel about life, death and redemption.