Having grown up in Doncaster - a town built on a now forgotten river - David Bramwell undertakes a magical journey to confront his thalassophobiak (the fear of what lurks beneath) and to seek out Danu, the goddess of primordial waters who gave her name to the river Don.Aided by a witch and the magician Alan Moore, Bramwell travels through the ladybird plague and drought of 1976, encounters a mysterious drowned village and endures the heavy pollution of Sheffield's steel industry when the Don became biologically dead.He continues up the Pennines, arriving in a pre-Christian era when our rivers and springs were worshipped as living deities.Can Bramwell face his demons and unravel the symbolic mysteries of our ancient ancestors? Who is the mysterious Vulcan? And will there be a pie and a pint waiting for him at the end of it all?
