Peter Sinclair lost everything - his father, his girlfriend, his job. Feeling that life itself is slipping away like sand between his fingers, he tries to capture it on paper. But what begins as an autobiography soon turns into the story of a completely different person in another world, and a new reality sucks Peter in headlong...From the author of "The World Overturned," "The Space Machine," "Glamour" and the film adaptation of "The Prestige" by Christopher Nolan - the novel , thanks to which the prestigious almanac Grant included Priest in its list of the most promising British authors of the 1980s, along with Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro and Graham Swift.