From the moment Tom Downs was born backwards—the moment of his mother's death—time has held him the wrong way round, like he's caught inside a fractured story.
But the thing about Tom's town flooding, and the thing that takes him by suprise is not what Old Mother Murray takes away, but who she brings back.
From the moment Tom Downs was born backwards—the moment of his mother's death—time has held him the wrong way round, like he's caught inside a fractured story.
But the thing about Tom's town flooding, and the thing that takes him by suprise is not what Old Mother Murray takes away, but who she brings back.