Escape Routes funny and not much to do

and not much to do

Like Stuck in the Stone Age

but they may also be manufacturing the pollution that makes them necessary

the farthest reaches of space

Escape Routes funny and not much to doWritten by Naomi Ishiguro paperback Characterised by its own brand of pleasingly unsettling magic, Naomi Ishiguro's Escape Routes matches the inventiveness of David Mitchell with the fairy tale allure of Angela Carter. A space obsessed child conjures up a vortex in his mother's airing cupboard. A musician finds her friendship with a flock of birds opens up unexpected possibilities. A rat catcher, summoned to a decaying royal palace, is plunged into a