Thief!

While fleeing from the victimisation that follows a false accusation of theft, Lydia enters a storm which flings her into the future, where she discovers that the consequences of her persecution have led to the corruption of an entire town. She struggles to return to her own time in order to put things right. This is a complex and ambitious novel, its huge improbabilities carried along on a powerful undercurrent of abrasive realism. The breathless pace and precipitate chapter endings make it a very promising candidate for reading aloud.