The OversightIn 1983, an ordinary teenager called Daniel Rathbone fell in love, spurned a friend, and stumbled on the ability to see in the dark. On his twenty-fifth birthday, Daniel is bequeathed a second no less unusual gift - a Victorian writing box, the legacy of his father and the repository of youthful ambition and a dimly perceived guilt. The box is opened, but its contents resist interpretation. When a visit from the once-spurned friend coincides with the death of a contemporary, Daniel's peculiar endowments are enlisted to make lasting sense of lost time and place. |