OK look, this is going to be tricky. In this slot I’ve got to tell you about the first five pages of my new novel. The problem is, my novel has two sets of the first five pages. Bear with me.
You see, The Turnglass is a tetebeche book – two entwined stories printed back-to-back and head-to foot. You read one, it ends in the middle of the book, you flip the book over and read the other tale. And you can read either story first. Or both at once. They’re pretty rare now, though they used to be more common.
So you see why it’s going to be a bit tricky. But let’s go. Like I said, there are two stories. One is a classic British gothic piece set in 1881 on the tidal island of Ray off the coast of Essex.
We open with our hero, a young doctor named Simeon Lee. He’s out of cash and working the slums of London in order to
