LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 'Chop off my head and hawk it to the highest bidder. I'm the Anatomist's Dream, did you know? That's what they call me.' ... In a small salt-mining town, Philbert is born with a disfiguring inflammation of the skull. With only a pet pig for company, he finds refuge in a traveling carnival.