Two children, Boy, nameless servant and Willow, assistant to singer Madame Beauchance. A magician and alchemist named Valerian using Boy and infernal powers to create illusions for his act at the Great Theatre.
It is the Dead Days, those oddly quiet days between Christmas and New Year. And a terrible drama plays out in the City, a great sprawling decaying metropolis gripped in winter, once magnificent and powerful, now rotting and impoverished.
Valerian was always unpredicatable, carrying out his mysterious experiments in the rambling ruin of the Yellow House. But now he is becoming increasingly volatile as New Year and his deadline for an infernal pact runs out. Boy and Willow are drawn into a breakneck adventure trying to find a mysterious book that will let the slippery Valerian once more cheat his fate but at a terrible price.
Sedgwick's writing is fast paced but also evocative and haunting, you feel the cold of the City seep into your bones as you're borne away on his adventure.
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