Publisher's Synopsis
This is a book about people throughout history with obsessions of one sort or another. It describes Colonel Sibthorp, the manic reactionary who opposed every motion put before the house because it would alter, if only minutely, a constitution which had reached perfection. William Comyas Beaumont, one-time Fleet street editor who believed that a large scale conspiracy had hidden the real identity of the Holy Land, which was actually the British Isles. And on to the modern couple living in Pont street, Chelsea who believed that if only they could slice off the tops of their heads they would feel much better, and went ahead and did it, and died.
