Sabine was supposed to be imaginary, a friend a lover that Griffin had created to soothe his loneliness. But she threatens to become embodied- to appear on his doorstop, in fact. The end of Griffin & Sabine, the surprise bestseller of 1991, left readers on the edge of a precipice. With Sabine's Notebook, they begin, with Griffin, the fall.
Faced with the terrifying prospect of meeting his own fictional character, Griffin runs. His journey begins conventionally-tracing a course through Europe and the Mediterranean-but slowly Griffin begins to realize that he is traveling backward in time, drifting through layers of dead civilizations and his own soul. His precarious link to reality is the possibly unreal Sabine, who is living in his house in London and keeping a notebook of his letters and her responses.
Once again, the story is told in strangely beautiful postcards and richly decorated letters that must actually be removed from their envelopes to be read. But Sabine's Notebook is also a sketchbook and a diary, filled with her delicately macabre drawings and notations, adding yet another layer tot he visual intrigue that haunted readers of Griffin & Sabine and welcoming new readers to an even more complex and mysterious world.
