With his first full novel in almost ten years (not counting his Doctor Who book) Michael Moorcock - the most influential figure in modern fantasy and science fiction - returns to the city of his birth. London has always been a central character in Moorcock''s work from the high-literary fiction of MOTHER LONDON to the roof gardens of Jerry Cornelius. Now return to London just after the war a city desperately trying to get back on its feet. And one young boy Michael Moorcock who is about to discover a world of magic and wonder. Between his first tentative approaches to adulthood - a job on Fleet Street the first stirrings of his interest in writing - and a chance encounter with a mysterious Carmelite Friar we see a version of Moorcock''s life that is simultaneously a biography and a story. Mixing elements of his real life with his adventures in a parallel London peopled with highwaywomen musketeers and magicians this is Moorcock at his dazzling mercurial best. . Language: English