Spider Jerusalem is my hero, as anyone observant should have realised by now. Sister Mary explains why, despite his rather RUDE behaviour, he’s so admirable: “Because for all that he’s a big ol’ jerk, he is trying to make the world a better place. He actually cares about people, in a world where when you get sick of being a person, you can easily change your species. He challenges the ruling powers, and they fight back. He goes from riches to poverty to riches as regularly as a clock, and he still keeps writing the truth, as he sees it. You might even say he’s a prophet for his age.”

Exactly so. It’s about holding on to the truth, no matter what, for the truth shall set us free.