Ivan Bradley

Mimi Ivan Bradley

The Otherworld The Apocalypse surprised everyone. The Creator returning to Earth at the Great Exhibition in 1851 overturned everything people thought they understood and ushered in a new age of... well some people thought of it as innocence, others saw it as the end of opportunity - if opportunity meant exploiting others. A small world population, no more wars or murder, a life expectancy that was possibly infinite and and the joyous irresponsibility of childhood extended to the age of forty-two. The Creator retired to the seaside, surrounded by his elite Guard of girls who dressed like pantomime principal boys and were all masters of the deadliest martial art known to man and left the shaken-up world to its own devices, apart from realizing that he couldn't experience the joy of innocence himself, so he created one more time. He made someone to experience it for him, intending to reel him in and assimilate his experiences into himself. And so Orson was born, in the town of Pentwater, cursed, as he saw it, to keep on falling in love with girls who were never available for the long haul. All he wanted was to find his soul mate, someone to wake up next to every morning and to love and share his life with, but instead he found himself embroiled with girls planning to emigrate - or become nuns. Pushed into a translocation portal by his neighbour, Orson becomes stuck in The Town Without a Name, somewhere at the seaside... In his new home town, Orson's curse sees him tangled up with a voodoo priestess, mermaids, fairy story characters and, of course, nuns. Then there are stowaways, mermaids, girls who are only alive in the pages of a book or behind the glass of a mirror and a girl who cannot leave the enchanted forest she lives in... It's a world of magic.. Fairies, demons, imps, sea deities... and a cat-girl, Mimi. This book is mainly about her - and a couple of nuns, Sister Ethanol and Sister Morphine...