The world as depicted inside these covers is a slightly quirky but different one. The characters that inhab-it these pages live out their lives on the far edges of society. Out of the gloom, they shine forth with an unusual radiance. Here, life is endured, not enjoyed, and their struggles are redolent with determination, and radiant with an unusual, quirky and oblique perspective, one that sheds light on those places that have been forever veiled...