Enchantment Author:Monica Dickens The reality of Tim's life wouldn't make headlines. During the day he sells fabric by the metre; at night he sits alone in his cramped bedsitter, writing letters. But the letters are part of his games -- fantasy games that transport him to other worlds where he becomes heroic characters, like the imperishable warlord Blch, penetrating the... more » Domain of the Undead.
What begins a harmless escapism, however, gradually takes over his life, until he is in danger of losing his grip and sliding full-time into fantasy.
With Enchantment Monica Dickens sympathetically portrays people for whom everyday life is not enough: Tim himself, the psychotic fellow-fantasist who haunts and threatens him, Jack the business man who like to exchange his suit for a wig and neglige, and ugly, deserted Helen with her beautiful autistic child.
The imaginative, witty and compassionate story shows once again how Monica Dickens uses sharp observation as well as warmth and understanding to uncover the extraordinariness of ordinary people in novel as compelling as any thriller.« less