Planting Out

British fantasy writer Gerry O'Brien's second novel returns to the strange world of his first novel, The Borough, to continue his soap saga. What does it feel like to be turned into a saint? Well, a lot of fuss and bother, probably. So the corpse of the ancient Gardener, cooling on a slab in The Borough's secret Abbey, isn't waiting to find out. It's happy being dead. All it wants is peace-that and to be far beyond the reach of its Abbot's unholy ambition. And then there's the microchip that knows everything there is to know. But it's lost and cold and dying in the winter's ice and snow. The last of its transistors begins to flicker out. Is there anything at all that can save it now?