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Grief, by Ed Lark

Published May 2005

ISBN 1 905315 02 3 • £7.99


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“I was early. Maybe the the trains were faster, the track smoother, the city closer. Yes, maybe the city was closer. Though it had seemed far away all my life. But now I was here. And here I stood in Waterloo station watching the people move past me.”

Juan has left his past behind for the seductions of the city and the Crystal Realm – a world of ever-changing fashion, daily plastic surgery, mind-altering drugs and bizarre sex.

He effortlessly climbs the social hierarchy, gaining money and power until the city thrills to his every move – but something is missing from his life, which perhaps only the picaresque troupe of troubadours who are trekking across the desert in search of him can explain.

Grief is both a unique dystopia, or perhaps an interpretation of the present, and a remarkable psychological fantasy, disturbing, witty and moving by turns.

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