Rafts and Dreams and Outside the Whale

Outside the Whaleis a fictional account of the writer George Orwell set in the early 30s in which the action moves easily over a period of three years and settings as various as the basement warehouse of the publishers Victor Gollancz, a hen-hut in Essex and the dosshouse in Romford. Rafts and Dreams: "While digging up the roots of a tree in the garden, Neil, Leo and Hetty uncover a vast underground lake which floods away the world. With Leo at the tiller of his sawn-away living room, the trio begin a voyage of the earth's watery surface. It is a surrealist fantasy at its most thought-provoking, a play whose best bits manage to work like a dream."Paul Taylor, IndependentHolman, Robert is the author of 'Rafts and Dreams and Outside the Whale', published 1991 under ISBN 9780413655707 and ISBN 0413655709.