Trance by Appointment Nii Ayikwei Parkes nor a childhood

nor a childhood

as he calls them

entwining the lives of three people

In this book David Cliffe uses surviving pieces of ephemera from the collections held in the Department of Typography at the University of Reading and the Local Studies section at Reading Central Library as a starting point for a marvellous and discursive journey into the history of the town

enlightening and

Trance by Appointment Nii Ayikwei Parkes nor a childhoodTrance by Appointment is the story of Jean, an otherwise ordinary working class London girl. But Jean has what her mother calls the Sight. She sees what no one else can: the future. At first, under the patient guidance of Madame Eva, she learns to control this talent and begins to work as a fortune teller. But once Jean falls under the influence of Norman, an unscrupulous astrologer, she is exploited as a money making machine, driven relentlessly to