A Stroke of Genius

What chance does a mouse have when an elderly academic decides the mouse must die?Seeking refuge from a bitter winter, a genius among mice finds his way into a big Victorian house. Its once-grand rooms are now occupied by a shabby old scholar who has a pathological fear of mice. Man and mouse engage in a life and death struggle until, at a stroke, the odds are reversed.This beguiling tale will appeal to sophisticated teens and to adults whose imagination still burns bright. Darkly comic, it offers a rodent-eye view of human nature by a mouse who doesn’t much like what he sees.