The world as a clockface

Novel in the magic realist tradition. The inhabitants of Whaler's Gate, a town on the Antipodean island of Esmania, claim that nothing has been the same since the turn of the century. Sister Clemence's visions and sightings of the wing of an Archangel are cited as evidence. Watercolour teacher Lavinia Chomsky runs off to sea with Captain Schuyler, undertaking a strange odyssey through mythical lands where time and place are distorted. Author's previous titles include 'The Time It Rained Fish' and poetry collection 'Trail of Bones and Godstones'.