期间，哈维感受到主席的支持，他的执教工作不会因此而受影响。 艾默里奇的时空交叉叙事，从今世的舞台剧转接到文艺回复期间的英国，又倒回五年前，交接事务原委，与此同时又穿梭着剧作天才爱德华的成长之路与英国女王的豪情戏，看似复杂的叙事被艾默里奇拿捏相当到位，跟尾的地方涓滴完美无缺，完全按照读者的浏览等候推动。
Trevor is between jobs. He spends his days avoiding his nagging heifer of a wife by hiding out in his allotment shed and painting figurines for his wargames with his agoraphobic friend, Graham, and dreaming of his heroic alter-ego, the battle mage Casimir the Destroyer. When Mr Parsons, one of the other allotment tenants, petitions to have Trevor removed from his disgrace of a plot (hes not there to grow stuff!) an argument ensues that leaves Trevor with a corpse to hide. Unfortunately, this untimely accident coincides with the zombie apocalypse and Mr Parsons return is just the beginnings of Trevors problems. More pressing is whether or not he should try and save his wife and her beautiful best friend, who both he and Graham have a thing for. 只是这朱师长教师在小说里固然戏份未几，可是他倒是最招人爱好的脚色之一，自己起到了主要的点题感化，小说里对白鹿精灵对汗青对时政，良多都是依托朱师长教师的嘴说的。
