Leaving Home

Fifteen short stories from reality to fantasy and back again. Home is a place, a person, an idea, or a life, and leaving it is always significant. It could mean an escape to freedom, happiness or adventure, realising a mistake and yearning to return, or even death. Fifteen short stories mix the reality of life with fantasy. Meet an archangel and a tiny vampire, travel from New York to Ireland via Barbados. Leave a beach in England and whirl through millennia, changing shape along the way. Join the stage crew in London's West End, and a pantomime in a small regional theatre. Share adolescent angst, domestic rage, unrequited love, the poignancy of loss, and the comfort of friendship. These are tales of comedy and tragedy, inspiring laughter and touching the heart. Pure magic. Contain some adult themes.