Julian Shaw

★★★★★

“The novel is highly visual, and I think it would make would make a great film or TV series.”

A review from Sarah Benjamin on Goodreads

I really loved this book, which has lots of the things I most like in a novel, a dystopian setting, a parallel universe, and a great journey story.
I was quickly invested in this book, which has a fantastic set up of the alternative world. The narrator is involved in a serious train accident and find himself in a state of limbo in an alternative world. Initially he finds himself in a prison camp with other men from the accident, and he must work stoking fires. We learn that these fires are used to make marbles which contain memories obtained from the prison inmates of their life in the real world…