Milton Pitt leads an uneventful life in the city of Oxford, with a dull job and a secret longing for adventure. One morning, on his way to work, he is hit by a speeding car. For a moment he hovers above his body in the shape of a butterfly, until he re-awakens in his bedroom, as if the morning so far never happened. Is he dead? Was it just a dream? Everything in his room looks exactly the same as when he first woke up. Everything that is, except for the bloody footprints leading to the fireplace...
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(Fairlight Books, 1 August 2019, 192 pages, ebook, copy from @FairlightBooks via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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I thought this book was crazy, in a good way. I've not read anything quite like it before. I had no idea what was going on half the time. This is a good thing. I love it when writers confuse and bewilder me. I hate it when I can see what's coming. Did Milton really die? Did he have some weird dream? Who knows? Who cares? I was happy just to be swept up in the crazy ride. The book gets darker and darker towards the end and I was creeped out a great deal of the time. This is an excellent book.
