The story of Paul Carpenter attending a rather unusual interview in a rather unusual building for a rather unusual firm with some very unusual employees that eventually leads him to accept a post in a very unusual job as junior clerk for a company where everything is not quite as it seems...
If nothing else though, Paul is just glad to finally have some semblance of a job. Not only that, but serendipity has brought him into a job working alongside a girl from the interview he finds himself inexplicably falling for. Yet is it serendipity bringing these two unlikely people together, or is there some other worldly malevolence playing with Paul and Sophie's lives...
Things just keep getting stranger and stranger, and as one thing leads to another and the truth about the job and the firm Paul has joined slowly begin to make themselves apparent, our unlikely star finds himself solving a mysterious conspiracy within the company with help of the titular device; A Portable Door - a time and space travelling implement he finds mysteriously in his desk... And within a company such as J.W.Wells calling anything mysterious really is saying something...
A witty and bizarre tale where Tolkien meets Douglas Adams; plenty of geek here to keep fans of sci-fi and fantasy amused whilst also telling an interesting and funny story with a bizarre and eclectic mix of characters. The story is easy to digest and wholly original story about the mundane world of office jobs yet with a magical twist. I can definitely recommend this to fans of things like Douglas Adams or Doctor Who. Not too serious but a nice departure from the often overly serious fantasy genre.
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