Fountains of Neptune
"My sleep began in the spring of 1914. I slept through both World Wars and the tainted calm between. It was as if I had been cursed by an evil fairy, pricked by an enchanted spinning wheel; an impenetrable briar had gripped my mind." Thus begins Rikki Ducornet''s brilliant lyric novel about Nicolas who, as a result of witnessing his mother''s murder, falls into a decades-long coma. Awakened in a s...
"My sleep began in the spring of 1914. I slept through both World Wars and the tainted calm between. It was as if I had been cursed by an evil fairy, pricked by an enchanted spinning wheel; an impenetrable briar had gripped my mind." Thus begins Rikki Ducornet''s brilliant lyric novel about Nicolas who, as a result of witnessing his mother''s murder, falls into a decades-long coma. Awakened in a s...
