Tony Deane

The Last Splendiferous Day Tony Deane

Single mum Alice tumbles back through time into a bizarre nightmare of The Summer of Love - where it's up to her to organize The Last Splendiferous Day Rock Festival (and save the world, of course).
After an unexpected journey through her record collection, Alice finds it's Not The First Of May in Oxford,1967, and the city of half-awake spires has become a looking-glass land of music-powered buses, furious Flower Power, figures from popular songs, and the abominable film director, Wendell Whateley, whose depraved biopic of Lewis Carroll is a cover for Lovecraftian horror.
Alice must evade the monstrous dhelves, survive a life-threatening encounter in the basement of the Ashmolean Museum, liberate singer Grace from the Cowley laundry that doubles as the Temple of the Elder God, while dodging Oxford Commas, Oxford Beasts, and Oxford Bags.
The Last Splendiferous Day dances across the genres, from Wonderland parody to the Lovecraft Mythos, tender love story to psychedelic phantasmagoria - and enough reversals of fortune to keep the reader gripped from start to finish.
The author has expressed his own love for the works of Lewis Carroll, for Oxford and the music of the Sixties in a conducted tour of a dream city where the familiar has become at once farcical and frightful.
The Sixties you can't remember, a hallucinatory world threatened by unspeakable fiends which only the power of music and one woman can defeat, on The Last Splendiferous Day.