Falling Sideways
- Author: Tom Holt
- Publisher: Orbit
- Classification: Ocult
David Perkins has spent most of his life living under the fear of his over-domineering mother, even now that she’s dead. He has also been living with the fact the he is 100%, totally and utterly, without a shadow of a doubt in love with Philippa Levens. It’s just a pity that she’s been dead for over 400 years, killed when she was burned as a witch.
But this might not be the problem it could have been (if for example you or I were facing it). For in the crazy world of Tom Holt all you have to do is; buy a lock of her hair (for an outrageous amount of money), get accosted by strange men with eye-patches, nip down to the local duplication plant, give another strange guy with an eye-patch the hair, and bingo! You’ve got yourself one cloned witch.
But you see, then your left with a little problem, one that I bet you yourself would have missed. How to you get an unconscious girl (who is currently green) across to the other side of London without a car, and without raising suspicion?
This and many other questions are answered, and a few more razed in the excellent Falling Sideways. For example, the development of the species as we know it is likely to be utter rubbish. Frogs are the ones in charge and they came from an alien planet (very Douglas Adams, but in the context not a problem, trust me). David is starting to find this out, and the frogs are not very happy about it.
But as stated on the back of the book:
‘Happily for humanity, however, very little of the above is actually true either.
Unhappily, things are a lot, lot, worse.’
Confused? You will be, but you’ll laugh none-the-less. Enjoy!
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