The Time Driver

Chapter 3

Bisby by the Sea is a very interesting and beautiful place to live. All the houses are painted in wild and wonderful colours and the harbour is always full of fishing boats with names like “Evergreen” that come and go all day and bob up and down all night. Everywhere in Bisby smells of seaside and waffles and fish and chips, and the narrow, cobbled streets are like a maze, only with lots of hills and tunnels and hidden places to explore.

Bisby by the Sea is also an interesting place to live in the winter, when the tourists have all gone home. That’s when ice-cold waves smash into the rocks and mysterious fog rolls in from the sea, blanketing the whole of Bisby Bay in a thick, soupy mist. A small island called Clod sits off Bisby’s coast and you can take a boat trip there if the sea is calm. Clod has many secrets of its own, including a ruined castle and some old smugglers’ caves. Bisby by the Sea really is the perfect place to live.

But…

It is also a very strange place indeed. A very strange place filled with some very interesting people, where all sorts of unusual things happen.

As you will soon see.