As he gets close, the removal men take a carpet out of the house and inspect it. Since Cal can’t open the window from inside, he tries to climb up the wall of the house to get the pigeon. The pigeon perches on a windowsill outside the house.

Soon, it becomes clear that the pigeon has joined a giant flock of birds who are converging on an abandoned house that is being gutted by removal men. The story begins in Liverpool, where a man called Cal Mooney is tending to his elderly father’s pigeons. This is the 1988 Fontana (UK) paperback edition of “Weaveworld” that I read. Needless to say, this review will contain some SPOILERS. So, yes, this review has been a long time coming.Īnyway, let’s take a look at “Weaveworld”. It became one book amongst the piles of books. I’d probably meant to read it at the time, but I held back because I’d heard that it wasn’t a horror novel ( unlike the other Barker novels I’d read). This was a book I’d found in a charity shop or a second-hand shop during my late teens/early twenties. Then, a week or two before I wrote this review, I found my old copy of Barker’s 1987 dark fantasy novel “Weaveworld”. Sure, I’d thought about re-reading “Cabal” a few times but, since I’ve already read it twice, I felt like reading something else instead. Then, when I got back into reading regularly a few months ago, it took me something like fifty-four books before I finally read another Clive Barker novel. I moved on to other books for a couple of years, but that was the last Clive Barker novel I read for quite a while.

It has been way too long since I last read a Clive Barker novel! I think that the last time was in late 2010/early 2011 when I started reading the third “Abarat” novel one evening, only to leave it half-finished because I couldn’t bear the idea of the story ending.

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