Christopher Musselwhite

Barker Ten Mile Christopher Musselwhite

The stories in Barker Ten Mile string together the boyhood adventures of a certain Chris Musselwhite - stories he swears are true, and not the least bit stretched. Perhaps we can give him the benefit of the doubt as he sagely never casts himself the hero. How else could we stand for such extravagant, fantastical accounts of Christmas in July, of a glass eye popped out for any paying schoolboy, of a place you can no longer find on the map? How else could we believe the wonder and danger and skin-of-your-teeth luck he knew on a green patch of earth, on the edge of a changing world? Read to find out.