Riding the Unicorn
John Willoby is a prison officer: tough, stolid, unimaginative – until he starts hearing the voices and the strange sounds: the clash of swords, the thunder of hooves. Willoby suspects he's going mad. His wife and daughter know he is.
Then the hallucinations begin, visions of a wild, strange, primitive world that draw him in until there is no going back.
In that world a city is being built and a bastard son is plotting to usurp his father's throne by bloodshed. And Willoby, unknowing, is part of the plot.
For Willoby is not mad...
Paul Kearney
Paul Kearney was born and grew up in Northern Ireland. He studied English at Oxford University and has lived for several years in both Denmark and the United States. He now lives by the sea in County Down with his wife and two dogs.