A book about the fate of England’s capital — London, the hard trials that befell it during the most difficult and the brightest periods of modern human history, and also about the fates of unusual and extraordinary people who lived in those difficult times. This is a story about the myths created by the city, and those invented by people in order to survive in it.
Dreamy Mary Ghazali, miraculously saved from the flames of a terrible fire that destroyed her family, and suffering from amnesia. Young writer David Mummery, author of books about London’s sewers, its Underground, and gloomy catacombs. Joseph Kiss, a professional telepath and talented actor with an unlucky fate. They are surrounded by many secondary characters illustrating different eras in London’s recent history: failed artists, petty thieves, fussy immigrants, arrogant nouveaux riches, government functionaries.