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“On a foul and stormy day, the Ship of Fools sailed.
I might have missed it had I not been strolling along the docks at the time, looking for signs of people I’d once known scratched into the woodwork. All signs were gone. And the funny thing was, I distinctly remembered certain men carving their names deeply into posts and stanchions. Those very same posts and stanchions stood unchanged, but nothing was carved into them now except the random hieroglyphics etched by windblown grit, corroding salt water, and coarse rope.”
About Michel Faber
Michel Faber was born in 1960 and started writing novels in 1972 or thereabouts. His unfinished and abandoned books include “And They Shall Inherit The Earth”, “Leon And The Locomotion”, “Woman With Long-Tailed Llorriphole”, “A Photograph Of Jesus” and – miraculously rescued here – “The Ship Of Fools”. Then he wrote “The Crimson Petal And The White”, “Under The Skin”, and so on. He lives on the south coast of England, with a clear view across the Channel to France. Before that, he spent a quarter of a century in the Scottish Highlands, having emigrated there from Australia, after spending …
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