John Hulme

"It's so good you're settled in your own place. It's what your mother would have wanted." I remember being told that, about a year after she died. I was struggling to keep hold of a job that was closing the walls in on me...and to keep a flat that felt just a little out of reach. Suddenly, it hit me that what had held me together through the times I had slept in the car or wandered down a city high street in search of a hostel was nothing to do with...

Vous vous rappelez la pluie que nous avons eue il y a deux semaines, ou ce cauchemar que vous avez fait la nuit dernière? Becker Drane peut vous dire exactement qui ou ce qui en était responsable, car Becker travaille comme Réparateur pour le Seems. Du Département de la météo au Département du temps, le Seems est le monde-derrière-notre-Monde, et il veille à ce que tout se déroule harmonieusement. Mais de temps en temps, quelque chose tourne...

Suspended for a year from his duties as a Fixer in the parallel universe called the Seems, fourteen-year-old Becker is called back into service when an entire Train of Thought is lost in the deserts of the Middle of Nowhere.

When twelve-year-old Becker Drane is recruited by The Seems, a parallel universe that runs everything in The World, he must fix a disastrous glitch in the Department of Sleep that threatens everyone's ability to ever fall asleep again.