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.