In "Under the Garden," William Wilditch, a restless loner given to wanderlust, takes one final journey as he approaches death-back to his childhood home where he discovers that the memories of his youth are simply not to be believed. In "A Visit to Morin," an admirer and old friend of a once-renowned Catholic writer is unprepared for the startling confessions of the spiritually bereft, now-reclusive scribe. On a vast plantation, a peculiar wish is granted a poor leper by his physician-in-charge-and for one rowdy winter night, a "Dream of a Strange Land" becomes a reality. Finally, for a group of children scouting the apocalyptic ruins at the edge of their village, "A Discovery in the Woods" opens their eyes to a lost world they never knew existed.
"The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings... A master of storytelling."
V. S. Pritchett, The Times (London)
"In a class by himself... The ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety."
William Golding
"A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy."
