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Twice a day, an old bakelite telephone rings and someone asks: "Is the room empty?" It usually is. But why is that important? And what does it have to do with the fate of Chimera Lithe? *
Welcome to the fantastical world of Miss Lithe and Monsieur Frisson, Patchy Goldenspeck, a flying whale named Reverie, Master Kit, Itsumade and his Tengu crew of Cloud Buccaneers, the Mist of Death, acrobatic aerial Silver Dolphins, plus a very barky baron telling a story to Miss Opaline Languor (if that is indeed her name), and to top it all, a mysterious unnamed character, with a partiality for tarte normande and café americain, answering an old bakelite telephone.
***Warning: If metafiction makes you feel dizzy, you should not read this book.***