Introduction: Set in the bleak environments of LondonÆs homeless community, the book is an echo of the Oedipus story. An unknown man, with a troubled family history, wanders the wastelands of the old docks in the company of a child. Only when the man is found dead of starvation does the tragedy of his life begin to unfold. Abandoned by his parents as a baby, he has grown up to murder a stranger before marrying that strangerÆs wife. When his wife hangs herself, he vanishes amongst the anonymous vagrants of London in search of redemption.

Personen: Walters, Minette