Book Description

On the thirtieth anniversary of his parents' deaths when he was seven years old, Ruairi Roes does what he always does on this day - he takes out a photo of his mother and makes a wish that he will see her one more time. On this anniversary God grants it. Ruairi falls asleep. A little girl leads him to a place called the depository where the angel Sirreal is waiting to meet him. At the top of the building is the library, guarded by the Keeper Bookbook, which contains all the Books of Life of each of the Inhabitants. Seeing Ruairi there they rebel and seek out their own Book of Life. They tear the waxen seals off, unleashing their whole life stories as Ruairi planned them. However, some of them abandon their lives when they read the final pages and return to their rooms in the Depository. Others such as the dwarfs decide not to read the last pages and go on a quest to find a place called The Red Pavilion, traveling through strange towns such as Morbeg Dorbeg and its Parliament of Hats, the country of the Belly Rumblers, Colonel Bombois and the Rusty Knight, and Obscuranta where decent souls are persecuted, and skeletons are partially re-fleshed to make their spirits suffer, and, finally, imprisonment in the City of the Jinn. At the same time Ruairi is being shown terrible visions as Bellybulb the devil, battles to deceive and discourage him on his journey. Only when the dwarfs fall into the Pool of the Spirits where Ruairi meets his mother is the real meaning of the Red Pavilion revealed and Ruairi's apocalypse is ended.