The Flaw in the Fabric, Book 1 of A Travellers Guide for Lost Souls

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"Down-on-his-luck tour guide Raymond Kidd hears voices in the basement of his 200-year-old cottage by the sea, thinks there might be something down there that will change his life, and abandons his companion of the night to go see.The next morn

While nursing a bloody split lip, Raymond discusses with a much younger tour guide the questionable value of being middle-aged and reduced to making minimum wage. In the process, Raymond finds out about the hurricane.A bike ride through the onset of

Raymond does everything he can think of to calm himself down. Meditation helps, but also sharpens his senses. He hears that the sump pump, which should be keeping the basement from flooding, is not running. Meanwhile Cat, the wife from whom he is se

Nettie McEachern, an inveterate walker, is on her way back to the village in the aftermath of the hurricane when she encounters Sheila Littlefair with her baby carriage. They gossip about the damages from the storm. Raymond, whose village nickname is

Angle and Octave have returned from their boat ride with Victor in an astonishing way, and Octave has suffered from it. Taking care of the younger brother, and cleaning a mountain of cod, takes the rest of the day. An exhausted Raymond lies down with

The burial of the brothers is debated, and the debatable behaviour of their virtuous relatives exposed.Raymond's father Eldridge plans a transcontinental trip from his California vineyard to visit his son in Nova Scotia and sort him out, along with h

Angle makes his way out to sea and encounters Victor Cooley in the fog. Victor corrects his fishing technique, starting with the fact that the cod he is looking to catch do not exist in the present. Gordon pursues the dinghy thief in his fishing boa

The successor disaster to Hurricane Noel is arriving, this time from the sun, with vivid and widespread consequences. Raymond in particular is struck by its unusual effects and awakes to find himself not Raymond anymore but sea captain Oliver Cole. I

Of Captain Cole's voyage to Calcutta and his adventures there, which include trading with a hashish-smoking merchant of cowhides, walking stoned in a crowd of festival-goers along the foul-smelling Houghly, meeting a mad miracle-working monk, and suf

The captain's wife finds her invalid husband at the window, looking out and marvelling at being back in his own time, at being back with her. Meanwhile, back in the 21st century, Raymond Kidd's wife Cat goes looking for him and can't find him. She dr

Over yet another meal of cod, Cat and the two brothers deliberate. Angle and Octave are concerned with how to survive in the 21st century. Cat cares only about finding Raymond and getting him back. They hatch a plan. The next morning, Angle ventures

Angle and Gordon, at sea to retrieve Raymond's dinghy, get into the rum. Afterwards, former detective Gordon drunkenly logs the astonishing result of his investigation, which is that the man he suspected of having murdered Raymond Kidd is actually an

Angle Daggon meets his descendant, and Gordon Daggon meets his ancestor, over a bottle of overproof bootleg rum confiscated from a dead man. A drunken Gordon can hardly believe the results of his investigation. An equally drunken Angle is taken to ta