Dimensions
130 x 197 x 32mm
A story about passion, poetry, pagan impulses, the soul's striving to escape from its mortal fetters and much, much more . . . the very craziness of the Hermetic Quest is turned into a sane metaphor representing a glimpse of how symbolic the world already is, and how much it is made in our image, littered with fragments of our dreams.
Offering keen insights into human characters and a vital rendering of the perilous bliss and the darkest imaginings of our fragile world it is full of surprises and incidental pleasures.
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Fiction
