C’MON THE TOWN
“If on the waves alone at sea and from sky to ocean only blue you see. With waves a lapping, threatening the deep, adrift you may be, but you’ll always have me.”
There is magic in the world, Oliver saw it, felt it when a great storm threatened to devour him as a child. That magic protected him, kept him safe. His family need it now but time and memory are devious things.
After a life of joy and love, despair and loss, Oliver McCormick is a shadow of himself. He is lost in his own body, trapped by his own mind. He is dependent and weak. He fears the future.
Yet it wasn’t always so.
He lived once.
Now as his journey nears its end, he worries for those he leaves behind. How will they manage; who will guide and protect them? How will they remember him?
From a childhood in rural Ireland of the 1940s to Liverpool in the 60s and on to today, as Oliver’s memories fade he searches for that magic. The magic that can make us immortal…