Gogmagog

In a distant, tattered future, an old woman, a young girl and a mechanical man embark on a slow voyage in the shadow of the great dragon Haakenur, up the vast estuary towards the city of Ludwich...

Past plants on the mud-flats that send up brief, man-shaped clouds of seeds to lure you out; past shanty towns full of old sailors and pilots scraping a living from the dregs of the passenger trade; and between the wicker effigies in the Wodwo graveyards, the voyage is at once familiar from folk tales and country customs and utterly strange and alien.

Cady is back on her boat and feeling every day of her 1,600 years; the tight-lipped but beautiful little girl and her rubber-stitched-faced mechanical companion are an odd but warmly imagined and compelling cast to accompany the reader on a quest into a world of mysteries and terrors that leave the reader with an inkling that this world is perhaps more familiar than it first appears.

Can Cady find her youth again?