Kevin Kronig led the young woman over to the railing.
“We’re stranded about half a kilometre off the most beautiful forest I’ve ever seen. It cascades from the clouds down the hillside like the mane of a spirit of the Earth. Where it meets the water, the sands are of a gold you’ve never seen before, and flocks of birds form living clouds that dance over the canopy.”
He put his hands on her shoulders and gently swivelled her around until she was facing the other way.
“We are no longer in an ocean or sea, but on a vast river. On the opposite bank, another glorious forest reaches from the water up to the clouds. The water isn’t empty either, but filled with boats of all shapes and colours. Not dull, rusty steel like ours, but of living wood and canvas and hemp.”
This is almost where the story ends, but it begins far away on a Scottish beach with a man throwing stones into the sea. On the journey, there are ghosts of the past, there is love lost and love found, but most of all, there are doors. Not the ones that adorn the front of our houses and dot the walls within like a plague, although there are plenty of these too, but those in our minds. They shut out what we don’t want to see, to know, to remember. We lock them, chain them, brick them up and paper and paint over the space and pretend they aren’t there. If only that worked. Not all the doors are of our own making though.
Publication date: 26th May 2018
Length: 408 pages
Sample scene – The Interview
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