Kaeti on Tour
A collection of linked short stories.
"She is real; more real than half the people you meet in the street..." Just one of the enthusiastic responses to Kaeti when she made her first appearance in book form in 1986. Kaeti & Company was to go on to win many more plaudits and awards.
Now Kaeti branches out, moves farther from her beloved London. In the process she makes a whole range of new, intriguing friends; and lands herself in some scrapes startling even by her standards. The shadows she sprays on the pavements of a Thames Valley town come alive to haunt her; later, the magic Tiger Sweater she acquires does more than haunt the subjects of her wrath. While for a time her latest experience of France also looks like being her last. In a Thames-side hotel she conjures Hell on request; on a deserted airfield, and in the Green Place, Glasgow, Hell returns to haunt her. In the West Country, she meets an eighteenth century benefactress; or is she? Certainly the experience lands Kaeti in hospital; for a while it seems she's about to cross the Bridge of Dreams herself. Finally she circles back to London; but a London neither you nor she has ever seen... But it's all in the day's work for Kaeti, the Bow Bells actress who is in touch with things magic and eternal.
Keith Roberts
Keith Roberts (1935–2000) was a British science fiction author.