English Music Author:Peter Ackroyd Timothy Harcombe, a young boy who is also a psychic, appears with his adored father in the theatres of London, where they heal people of despair. When Timothy is removed by his grandparents from what they consider to be an unsuitable life for a child, his new life in the countryside is unbearably lonely, and he finds solace in visions that encom... more »pass time, English history, and a panorama of English creative and cultural icons, from Dickens to Hogarth, from Wonderland to Arthur Conan Doyle, and from Merlin to John Bunyan.« less