It is 1999, and David Lambert, jilted lover and reluctant museum curator, discovers that HG Wells's time machine really existed - exists, in fact, because now it has returned to London. Motivated by unanswered questions and inescapable curiosity, he propels himself deep into the next millennium.
Exploring the utterly changed, luxuriant and menacing new landscape of the future, he also explores the ruins of his life, in particular the web of erotic obsession and remorse which ensnared him and his old friend, Bird, and Anita, the beautiful, eccentric Egyptologist they both loved and lost.
Winner of the David Higham Prize for Fiction.
