The Red Tie

"Books talk to the inner person, the secret person; they can make direct contact with all those subterranean feelings and desires you speak of."



Vincent edits books. It is modest and quiet occupation - yet one which is about to be thrown into turmoil thanks to the arrival of woman, her gift to him, and the words of his old mentor: "it's not what we keep out of a book that counts, but what we might put in."



Orwell meets Kafka in this tale of a dystopian future which could be a lot closer than we might realise...