
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 & enemy Percy Boyd Staunton angered by their recent quarrel who hurls the snowball; & Paul Dempster prematurely born when his pregnant mother is struck by Percys icy missile. Tracing the rich & varied lives of these three individuals The Deptford Trilogy" lures the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth history & magic in one of the most beguiling clever & cunning trilogies ever written."