Natural Flights of the Human Mind

Morrall, Clare.

Natural Flights of The Human Mind

London, Sceptre, 2006.

Fine in Fine dustjacket.

Second novel from the author of  Astonishing Splashes of Colour,  published by a small press in Birmingham, which made national news when it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003.

Peter Straker  lives in a disused lighthouse on the Devon coast, his routines dictated by the sea and weather.  He speaks to no one - except in his dreams.  There he converses with some of the seventy-eight people he believes he killed twenty-four years ago.