The World as a Clockface

Second Hand

Excellent Condition

The people of Whaler's Gate, on the Antipodean island of Esmania, claim that nothing has been the same since the turn of the century.

They say that the wing of an Archangel has been seen over the town, and young Sister Clemence has been beset by visions. It's been a hard winter the women have gone sun-crazy, and the watercolour teacher, Lavinia Chomsky, hs run off to sea with Captain Schuyler.

Borne on a strange odyssey through mythical lands, they discover a world where time and place are distorted, so that what has been marginalized becomes central, and what was once on the bottom now sits on top.