2023/044: Tommy Catkins — Stephen Palmer

2023/044: Tommy Catkins — Stephen Palmer

Every caw of the din a detonation, every wing beat a ricochet, every black silhouette a spinning shell. [p. 10]

Tommy Catkins (or, at least, a young man going by that name) is sent to Salixbury Island Hospital, in the Wiltshire countryside, after appalling experiences at Verdun. He's warned that he 'may notice a few odd things on the island ...not everything is what it seems to be'. This might explain the talking cat, or the blue-skinned folk with tails ( Read more... )