
It looked like any other carnival but of course it wasn&t It had its own little backstreets its alleyways of hanging bulbs & ghost trains & Punch & Judy stands & at the end of one he saw the Hall of Mirrors There were looping strings of carnival lights leading towards it & a large sign in mirrored glass reading & Burleigh&s Amazing Hall of Mirrors& & the sign reflected the lights in all sorts of magically distorted ways To Andy & his parents it looks like any other carnival creaking ghost train rusty rollercoaster & circus performers But of course it isn&t Drawn to the hall of mirrors Andy enters & is hypnotised by the many selves staring back at him Sometime later one of those selves walks out rejoins his parents
- leaving Andy trapped inside the glass snatched from the tensions of his suburban home & transported to a world where the laws of gravity are meaningless & time performs acrobatic tricks & now an identical stranger inhabits Andy&s life unsettling his mother with a curious blankness as mysterious events start unfolding in their Irish coastal town