

As your paths cross and intertwine, you’ll soon realise that no story is ever new. The choices you make about which pages to turn to may mean you’ll become a tourist or an undocumented migrant, a mother or a murderer, and you will meet many travellers with their own stories to tell. To Berlin or Amsterdam? Lima or Tijuana? Or onto a train that will never stop? You’re forever wandering, everywhere and nowhere, but where is your home? A pair of red shoes to take you wherever you want to go. So you make a Faustian pact with a devil, who gives you a gift, and a warning. You’re desperate to escape your boring life teaching English in Jakarta, to go out and see the world. You’ve grown roots, you’re gathering moss.

The most ingenious and unusual novel you will read all year, where you choose your own story.
