Dimensions
155 x 232 x 25mm
On the eve of Granny Hazel's burial in the back garden, a stranger in his time machine visits five year old Edward with an odd request. Edward agrees to be his friend.
Sophia, Edward's twin, brings future tragedy upon herself by misunderstanding a promise she makes to their dour father.
While Sophia stays at home, in The Manse, Edward is sent to boarding school where he encounters the strangest child, Alf, whose existence intimates universes of unlimited possibilities.
With its Gothic backdrop of rural - and institutional - isolation, Half Sick of Shadows is a comical tragedy, an evocative tale of childhood wonder, familial dysfunction, theoretical physics, poetry, and how men of vivid imagination get their ideas.
