´Sparkles with classical allusions and a wisecracking humour ... it is pure joy´ Daily Telegraph
It all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer´s block. The strange treatment plunges him into a hallucinatory London dreamworld populated by figures mythical and real: a severed talking head, Vermeer´s girl with a pearl earring, his lost love Luise and, beneath it all, the Kraken awaiting. As Herman will discover, creating art is a tough business.
´One of his most accessibly entertaining books´ The Times
´Short, smart and fizzy, the novel seeks out the roots of creativity with none of the solemnity that phrase implies´ New Statesman