In David Muir’s novel, James McKeever finds himself wandering an unfamiliar place, led by an elegantly-dressed man who says that he is his ‘Guardian’, and meets and befriends a number of people that he admired when they were alive, including Vincent Van Gogh, Anne Frank, George Harrison and Primo Levi.
A recurring dream which gives him a greater sense of foreboding each time he wakes from it, makes James question his new existence, and the boundary between reality and vision becomes blurred, leading to a stark choice.
The story is, ultimately, about the vicissitudes of life and the interplay of alternative realities that are revealed at the boundary between life and death.