`If you go you won’t come back. It will cost you everything.’
No one believes Maxwell saw a village of dead poets in the autumn. No one thinks he should go back there in the spring to teach drama. But off he goes, accompanied by Uri, a lost traveller he can’t get rid of, and Dee, a chatty teenager who claims she was murdered there.
His old friends are still around but the place has changed. There’s nowhere to live, no one to teach, years seem to have gone by. Life is distorted and bizarre, while the residents are gripped with the feverish urge to turn the place into The Perfect Village, for a high-stakes reality show called Forever England.
Love and reason fall by the wayside, clouds of myth and delusion descend, as Maxwell’s own memory starts to flicker and fade. Is the village doomed to repeat its tragic history? Can he save the ones he loves from both the past and the future?
- ISBN13 9781786824233
- Publish Date 1 September 2020
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Oberon Books Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 360
- Language English