Kate Thompson

J J Liddy sometimes blames his unreliable temperament on the visit he made to Tir na nOg, the land of eternal youth, when he was 15 years old. It's perhaps not surprising that his children have also turned out to be a little eccentric, especially 11-year-old Jenny. She forgets to go to school...

It's more money than the street urchin has ever dreamt of. But who is the rider, and why is there so much interest in his big black horse....

The White Horse Trick travels from the now to far distant futures: from world's end to world's beginning....