At two minutes to six on December 27th 1908 the lives of three people
become inextricably bound together by the trajectory of a snowball. There
is ten-year old Dunstable Ramsay, intended victim of the snowball, who,
fatefully, ducks; his 'lifelong friend and enemy' Percy Boyd Staunton,
angered by their recent quarrel, who hurls the snowball; and Paul Dempster,
prematurely born when his pregnant mother is struck by Percy's icy missile.
Tracing the rich and varied lives of these three individuals, The Deptford
Trilogy lures the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history and
magic in one of the most beguiling, clever and cunning trilogies ever
written.