Carl meets Annie Risk and falls for her. Hurt by a recent relationship, she resists becoming involved. A chance find offers distraction. Carl stumbles across part of a map to an unknown town. He becomes convinced it represents the city of his dreams, where ice skaters turn quintuple loops and trumpeters hit impossibly high notes...where Annie Risk will agree to see him again. But if he ever finds himself in the streets on his map, will they turn out to be the land of his dreams or the world of his worst nightmares?
British Fantasy Award winner Nicholas Royle has written a powerful story set in a nightmarish otherworld of fathers and sons, hopes and dreams, love and death.
- ISBN10 1907992014
- ISBN13 9781907992018
- Publish Date 1 September 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 January 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Solaris
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 240
- Language English