PoppyHarp

<p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Once upon a time not so very long ago in a lonely old house in the countryside there was a little girl called Imogen.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Every day she climbed upstairs to the top of the house.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>At the top of the house was an attic and in that attic was a doll's house.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>And in that doll's house lived a great many things.</em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Old things lost things forgotten things...</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Noah and Imogen are both children when they first meet in 1973. Noah is in a children's home after the death of his mother and Imogen is accompanying her father the brilliant but eccentric Oliver Frayling to promote their BBC TV show </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The Adventures of Imogen and Florian</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Following a turbulent relationship in their twenties Noah and Imogen part ways and lose sight of each other. Almost thirty years later they meet again. Noah is now a successful writer and a newly single father. He and his daughter visit the recently widowed Imogen in Lethebury a sleepy little town in the Malverns where Oliver created </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The Adventures of Imogen and Florian</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Oliver has been missing for years but aspects of his failed TV show seem to live on in Lethebury. One night Florian his fictional old rabbit comes to life and seems to want to lead Noah and his daughter through a door that used to lead Elsewhere. But where does it lead now?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The answer lies somewhere in the story of Oliver's deeply conflicted life his private relationship with the BBC producer Malcolm Church an abandoned Cold War bunker and PoppyHarp.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>But just who or what is PoppyHarp?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>From the World Fantasy Award-nominated author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The Teardrop Method</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>PoppyHarp</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> is a story about England in the 70s and 80s the AIDS epidemic the faded lights of celebrity and building your own little plot of Eden when it feels the world has forgotten about you.</span></p>