A novel for the 21st century that is about the past. That treats the familiar as strange and the strange as familiar. An attempt to capture ideas and make them grow- sometimes as flowers, often as mould. A story about relationships; between people, people and places, people and ideas.Words, pictures and sounds organised with subjective logic for pleasure and wonder. A tragic failure of communication; an invitation and a conversation.Take all your troubles; gather them in your arms. Stagger under their weight to the quays of wherever you are, look down, let your eyes creep, let go...