Therese & Tiamat is a novella and a fantasy, but rooted in real history. It is about the unnoticed, their enemies, about their escape and their dream-time. Its subject is a French woman, largely unnoticed, alive in the C18th, who was midwife to the French Revolution and its Terror. Therese Levasseur is this woman. She lived with Jean Jacques Rousseau as his servant. A reputed dullard and shrew. She was scolding ditch-water in the eyes of the intelligentsia...