Old Johnny Ifor had never gone anywhere. Not physically, anyway. But in his mind, in the journals he's inherited, in the stories he starts to tell to Jonathon, he travels across oceans and generations.
Exploring the nature of obsession and entrapment, this novel is fortified by a strong dose of the macabre. It also displays a fascination with haunting, and--with more than a sinister nod to the ghost story--it probes the absences of fathers and mothers and the art of getting away.
